LOFTUS (Nee Brown) – Betty Ann
Passed away peacefully at Heritage Manor on May 20 2018 aged 85 years.
The lovely Bet Bet finally got her wish and joined her beloved Paddy. She was much loved by her children Cathryn, Peter and Akimi and Gaynor and Greg. Her Grandchildren Owen, Ursula, Verity, Tabitha, Purdy and Nati, and her Great Grandchildren Kobie, Rooke and Nixon.
She was a shining light in the education department, the local theatre, the patchwork community, Sacred Heart and Saint Vincent de Paul Parishes in Morwell.
She will be greatly missed by all.
Funeral Notice
At the conclusion of Mass the Funeral will leave for the Traralgon Cemetery, Gippsland Memorial Park.
Rosary will be recited in the above church on Wednesday morning, (May 30, 2018)
at 10:30 am prior to the service.
I was one of Betty’s students at Yallourn Tech way back in the late sixties. Betty was a formidable woman who knew exactly how to educate the unruly band of “Tech Types” she inherited.
I had Betty for three or four years in a row for English.Her classes were NEVER boring and she made an indelible contribution to my life. I went to Gippsland Insitute where Paddy was a civil engineering lecturer, she used to say of Paddy’s vocation that:
“It might be s…t to you, but it’s bread and butter to us”
Betty called a spade a spade!
I did electrical engineering so I never had Paddy as a lecturer, I wish I had.
I never knew her children, but they can be very proud of their mum.
I only wish I could have done brunch with her at the end of my career so I could tell her what happened to me and to thank her.
October 20, 2024