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Name | Narrative | Branch and Rank | Unit and Specialty | Conflict/Arena | Born/Died |
Elizabeth "Betty" Sutton Robbins | Elizabeth "Betty" Sutton was born in 1919 on her family's dairy farm in Columbus, New Jersey. Betty earned degrees in Home Economics from the Women's College of the University of North Carolina, and a master's degree from Drexel University. Her jobs took her to far flung corners of the country; running the nursery of a women's correctional institution; dietician for the Devereux Camp in Anson, Maine; dietician and home economics teacher at the Radford School for Girls in El Paso; and nurse's aide in wartime Texas. In WWII she served as a nurse’s aide and a dietician at the Devereaux Camp in Aniston Maine. After the war she met and married Dr. Morris A. Robbins and assisted him in establishing and operating his medical practice in Columbus. The couple had two children. In 1956 they moved to 1410 Second Street in Delanco where they lived for more than 50 years. Betty continued her career teaching in Wrightstown and Roebling, and working in her husband's medical office. She was a tireless volunteer with the Burlington County Medical Society Auxiliary and the Zurbrugg Hospital Auxiliary and an active and committed member of her church. In later years, following Morris' death in 2004, Betty 'retired' to Riverview Estates in Riverton, where she lived for many years. She died March 11, 2011 and is buried with Morris in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Florence, NJ. | US Army, Rank? | Nurses Aide, Dietician | WWII, Anson, Maine | 1919 – 2011 |
Updated October 30, 2023