Elizabeth Helen Adamski

. Elizabeth (Betty) Helen Betz passed away peacefully in her sleep on December 7, 2017. Born in Farmington, Connecticut on March 22, 1921 she was the 10th child of 13 for Emil and Lillian Betz. She was a bright and bubbly person who enjoyed music playing violin in her high school orchestra. She worked as a teenager in her city’s first library. She cared for her mother Lillian until she died in 1945. She also continued to work during the war period taking a job at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. It was there that she met her future husband Walter S. Adamski. They married May 15, 1943 during the war and celebrated 61 years of marriage. Betty and Walter had 3 children, Elizabeth in 1944, Walter in 1946 and Thomas in 1955. Walter had joined the Marine Corps the start of WWII and remained in the military completing 30 years of service. Their military career took them across the USA to North Carolina, California, Hawaii, Pennsylvania and back settling in Orange County, California. Betty worked while raising the children and Walter deployed with the Marines. She was a competent secretary and machinist for Altec Lansing and Cannon Electric in Orange County, California. Always industrious and meticulous, she was an accomplished seamstress, embroiderer and needlepoint artist and always a cook, baker and gardener. She built a wonderful life for her family. Her husband Walter brought her many fine couture fabrics from his travels and she designed beautiful clothing items. She was preceded in death by her husband Walter S. Adamski and her son Thomas G. Adamski and all her brothers and sisters except Richard and his wife Lavelle Betz living in Anchorage, Alaska. She is survived by her daughter and spouse, Elizabeth J. and James M. Weibert, her son Walter S. and his wife Estelle Adamski, 7 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.