Born and raised Elizabeth (Betty) Klee in Great Kills, she graduated from New Dorp High School. In the early 1970s, she worked as a bank teller at Richmond County Savings Bank in Great Kills, but devoted most of her life to being a homemaker.
Mrs. Klee was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America organization as well as the New Dorp High School Alumni Association. She also enjoyed golfing, bowling and arts and crafts.
She was a former parishioner of St. Clare's R.C. Church in Great Kills. When she moved to Florida, she attended St. Luke the Evangelist R.C. Church in Palm Harbor.
Her husband of 26 years, William, died in 1977.
She is survived by two sisters, Jane Klee and Catherine Hurley.
The funeral will be Saturday at 10:45 a.m. in the Casey-McCallum-Rice South Shore Funeral Home, Great Kills. Burial will follow in Ocean View Cemetery, Oakwood.
