Bettina Power
Bettina Power
Los Gatos resident Bettina "Betty" Kroeber Power died March 3 at the age of 90.
Born in Long Island, N.Y., on Dec. 18, 1906, Power attended Vesper Art School in Boston. As a young woman, she worked as a reporter for the Croton-on-Hudson newspaper and later taught art in Scarborough, N.Y.
While living in Kansas City, Mo., she crafted marionettes for marionette opera productions by the Conservatory of Music, including I Pagliacci, Hansel and Gretel and Madame Butterfly.
She and her late husband, James, retired to Los Gatos in 1973. She was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church and was active on various committees of the Los Gatos Village Homeowners Association.
Her survivors include daughter Barbara Reed of Boulder Creek; son James A. Power Jr. of Topeka, Kan.; grandchildren David Reed of Santa Cruz, Michael Reed of Pasadena; Jane Burruss of Berryton, Kan., and Carol Becker of Bellevue, Neb., and also two great-grandsons.
Memorial services have been held, with arrangements by the Neptune Society. Donations may be made to the Salvation Army or to the Boy Scouts of America.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, April 16, 1997.
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