Betty J. Moskowitz

Betty J. Moskowitz, 81, of Mt. Pleasant passed away Monday, June 11, 2007 at Central Michigan Community Hospital. Her funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, June 14, at Lux Funeral Home with Jacob Eyal officiating. Friends may pay their respects to Betty on Thursday from 1 p.m. until the service begins. Cremation will take place following the viewing with her ashes to be inurned in Marquette County. The family encourages flowers, however, other expressions of sympathy may be made to Hospice of Central Michigan. Envelopes are available at Lux Funeral Home. Betty was born Jan. 26, 1926, in Sidnaw, Michigan, in southwestern Marquette County, the daughter of Mark and Lettie (Halicker) Goulette, where her father worked as a lumberjack. Her grandfather, Isadore Goulette, from Quebec Province, owned the only two-story hotel in town where lumberjacks ate and slept. The family moved to Grand Blanc where Betty was Vice President of her class and played on the girls basketball team at Grand Blanc High School. During World War II she worked in the Grand Blanc Tank plant while her husband, Charles, flew during that time in the Army Air Force. Betty studied Bacteriology at Michigan State College until her husband went to work for the Michigan Geological Survey in their field office in Mt. Pleasant. In 1951 she shifted to interior design for a degree at Central Michigan University. In 1960 she was a delegate to the national convention in Los Angeles that picked John Fitzgerald Kennedy in his run for the presidency. She was elected for a term on the Mt. Pleasant School Board. Betty was very proud of being a master gardener and had many friends in the Mt. Pleasant community. Betty is survived by her husband, Charles of Mt. Pleasant; four children, Estelle Holloway of Rochester, NY, Paul (Jan) Moskowitz of West Bloomfield, and Betsy Moskowitz and Jeff Moskowitz, both of Mt. Pleasant; and five grandchildren, Denise and Tanya Holloway and Madeline, Noah, and Jay Moskowitz. She was preceded in death by her parents; and her brother, Robert Goulette.