Betty Dorothy Bullert Coghill

She was born and raised in Webster, South Dakota. Brought up on her parents' farm, she traveled to a one-room school from first through eighth grades on a horse-drawn buggy. Betty was a graduate of Webster High School. After high school she moved to San Francisco where she lived with her sister, Margery, on Geary Street in the heart of the city.

During World War II Betty supervised welders at the Kaiser shipbuilding plant in Oakland, California, the same plant where is sister, Margery, and brother, Orin, worked as welders. Betty was a member of the Greatest Generation. An excellent writer and communicator, Betty kept a now priceless journal of her life during World War II.

She is preceded in death by her beloved husband, Julian Baxter Coghill, Jr. (July 5, 1918 - December 19, 2003). She is survived by her daughter, Carole Elizabeth Coghill and partner, Bill Cockrell; her daughter, Kathleen (Katie) Lambert Coghill Snyder; son-in-law, Kent Lewis Snyder; and her grandchildren, Emily Lambert Snyder and John Wesley Snyder.

Betty was the daughter of Marie Clara Brakhage Bullert and Otto Daniel Bullert, who settled in Webster, SD where they owned a large farm. Betty is survived by her sisters, Beverly Ann Bullert Swanson and Marilyn Jeanne Bullert Rarick. She was also preceded in death by her brothers, Byron Jadon Bullert, David Charles Bullert, and Orin Dean Bullert, and by her sisters, Vivian Minnie Bullert Shea, June Marie Bullert Honey, and Margery Rose Bullert Kral.