Elizabeth "Betsy" Nelick Profeta
1948-2010
 Rest
in peace,
beloved classmate |
From the Lawrence
Journal World 1/7/10:
Funeral services for
Elizabeth “Betsy” Nelick Profeta, 61, North Port, Fla., will
be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Trinity Episcopal Church. Private
interment will be in Stony Point Cemetery in southern
Douglas County.
Ms. Profeta died Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010, at Lawrence Memorial
Hospital. She was born Nov. 24, 1948, in Madison, Wis., the
daughter of Franklyn C. and Elizabeth Mount Nelick. She was
visiting Lawrence at the time of her death.
Ms. Profeta was a 1966 graduate of Lawrence High School and
was the class valedictorian. She earned a bachelor’s degree
in English in 1970 from Cornell College in Mount Vernon,
Iowa. She received a master’s degree from the State College
of New York in Buffalo. During her undergraduate years, she
spent a semester at Oxford University in England.
Ms. Profeta began her career as a volunteer with VISTA in
Liberia and with the Peace Corps in Afghanistan. She later
worked overseas for several companies, teaching English as a
second language in Africa, Iran, Italy and Saudi Arabia. She
also was an educator at several regional institutions of
higher education and for the state of Kansas. She recently
taught English at Manatee College in Florida.
She married John Profeta. He survives, of Florida.
Other survivors include a son, Jamie Profeta, of the U.S.
Virgin Islands; and two brothers, Tim Nelick, Memphis,
Tenn., and Jamie and wife Lisa, rural Douglas County.
The family suggests memorials to the Lawrence Humane
Society, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary, 120 W.
13th St., Lawrence, KS 66044. Online condolences may be sent
to
www.warrenmcelwain.com.
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