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Note: Elizabeth Caldwell Wright of 56 Lake St., Cooperstown, died Feb 22, 2006 at her home. She was 85 years old. Born in New York City to Frank and Marjorie Whiting, the family moved to Cooperstown in 1932. After graduating from Knox School for Girls in Cooperstown, Elizabeth married the late Dr. Ernest Bevier Wright in the spring of 1939.
Shortly after their marriage, Betty and Ernie resided in Pasadena, California. In 1946, they moved to Rochester, New York where he joined the faculty of the University of Rochester Medical School. In 1956, they moved to Gainesville, Florida where he was one of the founding members of the University of Florida Medical School. Upon retirement, they moved to to Palm Beach, Florida and then to Captiva Island, Florida.
Because of the couple's great affection for the Cooperstown area, they built a summer home at 56 Lake Street. Her father, the noted architect, Frank P. Whiting, designed the house that was completed in 1952.
Betty was active in the community with the Lake and Valley Garden Club, the Cooperstown Art Association, on various committees of the Cooperstown County Club, and the A.S.P.C.A. She was also a sustaining member of the Junior League of Rochester. In her later years she became an avid world traveler.
Betty is survived by five children, Elizabeth Carolyn O'Hare of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Charlotte W. Edelstein of Gainesville, Florida, Catherine W. Ransdell of Broken Arnow, Oklahoma, Cecily P. Rogers of Brandamore, Pennsylvania, and Ernest Bevier Wright, Jr. of Atlanta, Georgia; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Prior to her death she donated the original Louis Bevier Bible (1646) and other Bevier family documents and papers to the Huguenot Historical Society in New Paltz. These items were passed on to her husband, Ernest Bevier Wright, through his mother who was a direct descendant of the Louis Bevier family line that resided in Marbletown, New York for several generations. The old Marbletown Bevier Homestead is now the Bevier House Museum, the headquarters of the Ulster County Historical Society.

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