MaryPat King
I am devastated by the loss of my NH summer childhood friend, Betsy. We were blessed to have a circle of these childhood friends & we called ourselves "The Beach Kids" and we got together frequently. Betsy & I became closer after her kindness to me after the deaths of my parents in 2008 and my retirement in 2009. We shared talks, coastal walks, drives up the coast for chowder, & longer drives up the coast for lobster rolls. Betsy asked me to be her "Chemo Coach" when diagnosed with her tumor, as I had successfully survived two different cancers. When unresponsive in the hospital (but I believed that she could hear me), I took Betsy (in our imagination, but OUT LOUD) for one last walk up our beloved Plaice Cove Beach, stopping to get an ice cream at the stand, & enjoying it on the sea wall, listening to the surf & sea gulls, past the fish houses to the volunteer garden for another rest, & finally up the big hill to Little Boar's Head, where we rested on a bench, like the next to last coastal walk we took in which she let me take our photo on that bench in 2017. I posted that photo on this website & two others of "The Beach Kids" as well as a link to "Betsy's Album": https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10211457276768185.1073742062.1251023105&type=1&l=e389bb6ef3 Betsy, you will be always in my heart. My deepest condolences to Matt, The Beach Kids, and to the other lovely friends of Betsy that I have recently met: Diane Connell, Mary Boyd, & Van & Kathy Gallagher (whom I hope to meet) & other family members... I wish I could be there for the service, but I had responsibilities in Florida and had to leave after Betsy passed away... Love, MaryPat
Tuesday February 20, 2018 at 12:50 pm