Betty Louise Duggan
Betty Louise Duggan
Betty was
born on April 11 1927 in Council Idaho to Gerald F. and Emily E. Trayler. She
grew up in Council, and Pendleton, Oregon, and then later moved to Tracey,
California where she attended Tracy Union High School. She was a talented
artist and played the saxophone in the Balboa High marching band. During WWII,
she further developed her artistic talents while working at a government office
and was active in the USO – particularly supporting the Navy. After the war,
she worked in her father’s appliance store in San Francisco and on June 10,
1950, she married James Duggan of Galway, Ireland.
They had
three sons, Brian Patrick, Kevin Michael, and Seán Frederick, and for a time,
they had a foster daughter. The family moved to San Bruno, where Betty was
active in La Leche League, Cub Scouts & Boy Scouts, and the boys’ school
activities. She made costumes for her sons, wrote stories for them, and was a
creative crafter. Betty worked for veterinarians in San Lorenzo and San Bruno,
showed the family's Irish Wolfhounds, and bought a horse for riding and
vaulting. She separated from Jim in 1975 and moved back to Idaho where she
began to work as a volunteer rehabilitator of injured birds of prey, working
closely with the famous Morley Nelson and Idaho Fish & Game. Betty gave
lectures with live raptors to schools and hunter safety classes, and was widely
known as “the Bird Lady of Boise.”
Her parents
and Jim Duggan preceded her in death. Betty is survived by her only brother,
James Trayler, of Woodstock, Georgia, her three sons in California; Brian in
Turlock, Kevin in Camino, and Seán in Grass Valley, and her granddaughter,
Fiona – of whom she was very proud.
A graveside
memorial will take place at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Council on July 11
th
2017 (time TBA).
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