Semper Fi

Yesterday morning Oriental lost one of its WWII veterans: Florence Elizabeth ("Betty") Brandon.

Betty was twenty-three years old when she left her small town in Pennsylvania and joined the United States Marine Corps. She served in San Francisco.

After completing her wartime service, she joined the multitude of veterans who took advantage of the GI Bill to get an education. She was able to walk through doors that would otherwise have remained closed.

She loved the outdoors and shared many adventures with her husband, Ken. She loved to read and was always working her way through a newly published work of history or biography.

She was a wise and witty woman. Her friends relish having known her and greatly miss her.