Leo Bertram “Bertie” BETTS

1891 - 1954  (62 years)

• Name	Leo Bertram “Bertie” BETTS
  Born	4 Aug 1891	Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine
  Gender	Male
  Education	Ellsworth High School, Tufts College (1yr)
  Religion	Roman catholic
  Cause of Death	Coronary occlusion
  Died	Jul 1954	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine
  Buried	St Marys Cemetery, Stonington, Hancock, Maine
  Person ID	I38436	Main
  Last Modified	30 Oct 2023

  
  

  Family	Mary Fox DAVIS,   b. 6 Mar 1889, Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine ,   d. 30 Nov 1974, Portland, Cumberland, Maine  (Age 85 years)
  Children	+ 1. Constance Roselle BETTS,   b. 19 Apr 1922, Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine ,   d. 20 Aug 1983, Barre, Washington, Vermont  (Age 61 years)
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F15140	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Died - Jul 1954 - Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Leo Bertram , commonly known as Bertie Betts married Mary Fox Davis in Ellsworth Maine in 1910. They lived there until some time prior to January 1920 , when their fifth child Sylvia was born in Farmingdale Maine (near Augusta) While living there Bertie worked for the R. P. Hazzard Shoe Co. I presume that it was through this company that he made contact with the Kinney Shoe Company,whom he worked for in Harrisburg, Pa at their warehouse and then was assigned to corporate headquarters in New York City, at which time we lived in Mt. Vernon N. Y. He subsequently became a retail store manager for Kinney in Norristown, Pa. where we lived until the Fall of 1930, when he lost his job due to the depression and moved his family back to Maine where his mother had a home on Deer Isle. There he became a Maine coast fisherman, just barely eking out a living for his big family. Just prior to his 60th birthday he went to work for Pitney Bowes in Stamford, CT. This job became available with the help of Eugene Titsworth, who was married to his daughter Sylvia. This proved to be a most fortunate move for Bertie and his wife, because he only lived another two years and company benefits at Pitney Bowes permitted Mary to live comfortably for the twenty years she outlived Bertie. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S32] SUTTON, Milton, 1885 Census.