\t\t\tBetty Jane Lonergan \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Betty was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. At 18, she married her sweetheart, Gerry. They had six children and remained in Michigan until 1965, when the family moved to San Diego after Gerry became the San Diego County Auditor.<\/p>\n
While raising six children, Betty remained energetic and welcoming. A consummate entertainer, she hosted memorable costume and theme parties at the family\u2019s San Diego home and at their second home in Baja, Mexico. In 1995, she and Gerry made Baja their full-time home.<\/p>\n
Betty and Gerry traveled extensively throughout the United States and internationally. They were avid skiers and explored Europe and the Far East. They also spent two months in Saipan, where Gerry taught accounting to local residents and Betty taught children at a local school.<\/p>\n
After raising her children, Betty pursued a wide range of professional and personal interests. She worked at Children\u2019s Hospital, managed investment property, earned her real estate license, and sold residential properties in Los Angeles. She also enjoyed antiques, buying and selling her finds in California and Mexico, and started a small floral design business. Bridge and horse racing were among her favorite pastimes. Betty was also a generous philanthropist who raised funds and awareness for Children\u2019s Hospital and the Foundation Fighting Blindness and later served as president of Rosarito Cruz Roja.<\/p>\n
After Gerry died on their 58th anniversary, Betty lived in Palo Alto, next door to her son, Scott, for two years and then back to San Diego to Fredericka Manor for 14 years passing just days before what would have been her and Gerry\u2019s 76th anniversary.<\/p>\n
She is survived by four of her children, Janice Buck (Dave), Karen Driscoll (Tom), Mark Lonergan (Kim), and Scott Lonergan (Robbin). She was preceded in death by her daughters Kathy Becker and Susan Hollins.<\/p>\n
She had six grandchildren: Darren, Mathew, Ryan, Jennifer, Jack, and Kaitlin and five great-grandchildren: Avalyn, Kellen, Rowan, Madelyn, and Jameson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Betty Jane Lonergan OBITUARY Betty was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. At 18, she married her sweetheart,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-500064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}