Services Held for Elisabeth Van Patten
Services were held Monday for Elisabeth (Betty) Van Patten, Santa Monica resident and educator, in the chapel at Pierce Brothers Moeller Murphy Mortuary in Santa Monica. She died last Thursday, apparently of a heart attack.
She was born in Auburn, N.Y. She served in the Marines during World War II before beginning a 40-year career in education at Carlthorp School in Santa Monica. For the past 20 years she served as its assistant administrator.
She was a member of the Women’s Council of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Women’s Club and had served as president of the Business and Professional Women’s Club.
She was a founding member and past president of the Girls Club of Santa Monica.
She is survived by a brother, Arleigh Richard of Santa Monica, and two sisters, Jane Farron of Cathedral City and Mary Eckman of Pacific Palisades.
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