Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Elizabeth BORKEY
Elizabeth 'Betsy' Borkey Hoopes Lawrence of West Chester Elizabeth "Betsy" Borkey Hoopes Lawrence 83, passed away peacefully on Oct. 16, 2012 at Neighborhood Hospice in West Chester. She married Daniel Hoopes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hoopes, Jr., in 1952. Daniel Hoopes graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and had served in the U.S. Navy. Dan passed away in 1959. She married Edgar (Ted) Lawrence in 1960, a prominent West Chester dentist, cabinetmaker and local raconteur. Ted Lawrence graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Dental School and had also served in the U.S. Navy. They were married 41 years until Ted's death in 2001. Betsy was raised on "Island Grove Farm" in Collegeville and was the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Andrew V. Borkey. She graduated from Wesley Junior College, Dover, Del. and the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising in New York City. Betsy was an active member of the West Chester Garden Club (a Garden Club of America affiliate) since 1965, where she had many friends and through which she won numerous awards for arrangements in the Philadelphia Flower Show and other community activities. Betsy was also an avid traveler (touring Europe, the Caribbean, South and Central America) and bird watcher; these were interests she passed along to her children too. She lived for 35 years in East Bradford until moving to Wellington at Hershey's Mill in 2010. Betsy was proud of her responsibilities associated with running the West Chester-based and family owned, wooden wheel manufacturing business, Hoopes Brothers & Darlington, for the last two years it was in operation. She had four children with Dan Hoopes: Ann (Mrs. Robert Williams), Thomas Hoopes, III (Jessica) and her twins, Andrew G. Hoopes (Theresa) and William H. Hoopes (Cynthia) as well as six grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister, Marianne (Mrs. Harry B.) McEuen of Cedar Key and Jacksonville, Fla. Relatives and friends are invited to her memorial service at 11:30 on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, 212 S. High St., West Chester, PA
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