1923
Elizabeth
2022
Elizabeth Rowe
June 2, 1923 — February 14, 2022
Elizabeth (Betty) Rowe, 98, of Sandwich, died February 14, 2022, at Golden View Health Care Center, in Meredith.
Born in Houghton, Michigan, she was the daughter of Elsa Prior Obenhoff and Jack Cooley Pratt.
At the age of 6 months the family moved to Peru, S.A., where her father was employed by Cerro de Passco Copper Mines.
At the age of 4, the family moved to France, then to Sweden and by the age of 10 Betty went to Boarding School in Switzerland for 2 years.
At the age of 13, Betty was adopted by her grandparents and moved to Chicago, Illinois. She lived there to 2 years and attended the Girls Latin School.
They then all went back to France and lived on the Family estate until the Second World War began. They sailed back to America and lived in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.
Betty attended Mary A. Burnham School for Girls, in Northampton, Massachusetts and then Massachusetts General School of Nursing graduating in 1945 as a RN.
Betty married Roland Heintzelman in 1945. They had 2 daughters Christine Noel (predeceased) and Wendy Elizabeth Heintzelman. Roland died in 1955 after a long illness.
She remarried Abbot Rowe in 1959, who passed away in 1994. Abbot had two sons by a previous marriage, Jonathan (predeceased) and Mathew.
Betty has two half-sisters, Janine Moden of Anacortes, Washington State and Patricia Pratt od Durham, New Hampshire.
Betty is survived by 4 grandchildren and 1 granddaughter, 7 great-grandchildren.
Betty was an avid gardener, artist (oils and watercolors), a world traveler to many countries: France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Monaco, South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda looking for adventures.
Betty lived in North Sandwich, New Hampshire, off and on, for 60 plus years in the summer months and wintered in Boynton Beach Florida and Rockport, Massachusetts.
Services will be held at the convenience of the family.
Born in Houghton, Michigan, she was the daughter of Elsa Prior Obenhoff and Jack Cooley Pratt.
At the age of 6 months the family moved to Peru, S.A., where her father was employed by Cerro de Passco Copper Mines.
At the age of 4, the family moved to France, then to Sweden and by the age of 10 Betty went to Boarding School in Switzerland for 2 years.
At the age of 13, Betty was adopted by her grandparents and moved to Chicago, Illinois. She lived there to 2 years and attended the Girls Latin School.
They then all went back to France and lived on the Family estate until the Second World War began. They sailed back to America and lived in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.
Betty attended Mary A. Burnham School for Girls, in Northampton, Massachusetts and then Massachusetts General School of Nursing graduating in 1945 as a RN.
Betty married Roland Heintzelman in 1945. They had 2 daughters Christine Noel (predeceased) and Wendy Elizabeth Heintzelman. Roland died in 1955 after a long illness.
She remarried Abbot Rowe in 1959, who passed away in 1994. Abbot had two sons by a previous marriage, Jonathan (predeceased) and Mathew.
Betty has two half-sisters, Janine Moden of Anacortes, Washington State and Patricia Pratt od Durham, New Hampshire.
Betty is survived by 4 grandchildren and 1 granddaughter, 7 great-grandchildren.
Betty was an avid gardener, artist (oils and watercolors), a world traveler to many countries: France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Monaco, South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda looking for adventures.
Betty lived in North Sandwich, New Hampshire, off and on, for 60 plus years in the summer months and wintered in Boynton Beach Florida and Rockport, Massachusetts.
Services will be held at the convenience of the family.
To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Elizabeth Rowe, please visit our flower store.
Guestbook
Visits: 6
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the
Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors