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Elizabeth “Bette” Tillman Hall McGillivray of Indian River Estates, Vero Beach,
Florida died on October 25th, after a short illness.
Mrs. McGillivray, born in Hammond, Indiana, was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Indiana University in 1941.
In 1941, Bette married Lt. Robert Paterson Hall. They lived in Ft. Riley, Kansas where he was on the faculty of the Cavalry School. After the war, they lived in Evanston, Illinois; where Bette received her Master’s Degree from Northwestern University, in 1957. She subsequently taught chemistry at both Glenbrook and New Trier High Schools. She also studied at the University of Chicago (1957), the University of Hawaii (1962), Bowdoin College (1964) and the Illinois Institute of Technology (1967).
In 1981, the Halls retired and moved to their summer home at Crystal Lake in Frankfort, MI. That year they sailed their boat through the Erie Canal and down the Intracoastal Waterway to Stuart, Florida, arriving in November, 1982. They spent the winters in Stuart and Port St. Lucie before moving to Sand Piper Bay, in 1986.
In 1990, they moved to Indian River Estates in Vero Beach. When Bob Hall died in 1992, Bette remained in Vero Beach where she was a member of the American Association of University Women, the Vero Beach Museum of Art and the Treasure Coast Alumnae chapter of Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
In 1985, she married Bob McGillivray and together they traveled to over thirty countries in seven years.
She is survived by her son, Douglas Weston Hall, and his wife Marilyn of South Salem, NY. She also leaves four grandchildren, Peri Otterstrom Bluemer, of Las Vegas, Kristi Otterstrom Jones of Holland, Matthew Jordan Hall, of Bethel, CT, and Evan Arthur Hall of New York City, and five great grandchildren, Brandon Scott Jones, Ashlin Elizabeth Jones, and Kynzi Nicole Jones of Holland, and Aurora Jacqueline Hall and Belle Victoria Hall of South Salem.
She was predeceased, in 2007, by her husband, Robert James McGillivray; and, in 2002, by her daughter, Diane Hall Otterstrom of Holland, MI.
A Memorial Service will be held on Bette’s 99th birthday, February 18, 2018, in Vero Beach.
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