Elizabeth "Betty" Wyckoff Passes Away

Elizabeth "Betty" R. Elizabeth "Betty" R. Wyckoff, 97, of Bowling Green, passed away Saturday, August 27, 2011. Betty was born in Philadelphia, PA, August 4, 1914. She went to Eastern Baptist Seminary, in Philadelphia, PA. where she was ordained a pastor in 1938. She was the first woman to become an American Baptist pastor in Pennsylvania. She has been the assistant pastor in many churches over the course of time in Pennsylvania , California, Kentucky and in the late 60's to the early 80's, she was the director of Christian Education and Youth Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Toledo, on Collingwood and Central. Upon retirement, she took on another assignment to pilot a program called National Minister-at-Large in which she would interview members seeking information and resolving any conflict within the church. She then traveled throughout the American Baptist churches across Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, New Jersey and Ohio. She retired to the Bowling Green community thirty years ago and has loved every minute of her time here. She was active in visiting people in the hospital, nursing homes, playing the piano and volunteering at the Senior Center and was the church organist at Village View Church of Christ for many years.