Elizabeth "Betty" Lynch's Obituary
Elizabeth "Betty" Lynch, 64 of St. Petersburg, Florida has sadly passed away on March 13, 2023. She was born on June 27, 1958 to the late Norman and Sharon Lynch in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Betty is preceded in death by her parents and sister: Norman P. Lynch, Sharon J. Lynch, and Maureen Traub. Betty is survived by her loving son Dillon J. Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida, as well as her adoring siblings, Kevin Lynch, Nancy Aldrich, Kathleen Long, Sheila Lynch, Anne Lynch, and Michelle Prosek. Elizabeth is further survived by many wonderful cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Betty graduated from Shorewood High School in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin and went on to earn her bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of South Florida.
With her psychology degree, and as a Certified Resource Specialist, she applied her special skills and temperament in a long career in health care, especially for senior clients, as a case manager for Suncoast Center for 12 years She later served as a Community Resource Specialist/Case Management Support Professional for Humana at Home for nearly a decade, both in St. Petersburg. Betty was certainly a "Strong community and social services professional", as her LinkedIn page reads.
A girl from the North Country who loved balmy climes, she moved to Florida (from California) when her parents relocated to St. Petersburg for her father's job transfer. Eventually her folks moved back to Milwaukee, along with baby sister Anne, and second-youngest Sheila went to Cincinnati. But sun-bunny Betty stayed in St. Pete and finished her education there, and later bore and raised a son, Dillon, now 23, as a single mother.
Betty was a sweet person, she made life more tender, warm, and bearable for her presence. Her temperament, tone, sensitivity, skill and love helped make her a valuable community resource specialist in her professional career. She was the most musical of all her siblings; she played the flute, and loved the best of popular music, most of all The Beatles. Betty’s frequent phone calls to any of the six siblings and her parents were her way of reaching out, slipping past anyone’s personal posture or attitude, of letting you come closer to her, and perhaps pulling you out of yourself, especially if you were in a lousy mood. She had a natural disposition and skill at communicating with others, even over the phone in her loving, sometimes laconic, and slightly luminous ways. Sometimes it was just a pause, an invisible smile and a small sigh. She could call up without anything in particular to talk about and yet begin a perfectly enjoyable conversation merely because she wanted to connect, a manifestation of her love of family and of humanity.
Betty will be deeply missed and remembered always by those who loved her.
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