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Elizabeth “Betty” Wooster March 7, 1912 – February 19, 2012
Angels Camp, CA...Born as Elizabeth Campbell in Ducor, California on March 7, 1912, Betty Wooster as a child lived with her family in Southern California and the Bay Area. Her parents, Vernon and Jincie Campbell built fruit and vegetable canneries. The family bought the 888 Ranch, between Sheep Ranch and Mountain Ranch, in 1927. She attended Calaveras High School, where she met her future husband Theodore “Buster” Wooster. After graduating from USC in 1934, she taught school in Beverly Hills until 1939, while Buster was starting out in the cattle business. She married Buster in 1940. They lived in Sheep Ranch....
Together they built a cattle ranching operation that included winter pasture at Copperopolis, a summer range in the Blue Mountain and Hwy 4 area, and beginning in 1941 another summer ranch around Highland Lakes. Buster Wooster died in 1979. Betty continued to operate the ranch for several years, before retiring. She moved from Sheep Ranch to Altaville in 1991. She passed away at her home at the age of 99 years, next door to her niece Nancy Whittle and Nancy’s husband Don.
She was a charter member of the Calaveras-Tuolumne Cowbelles, and a long-time member of the Farm Bureau, the Calaveras-Tuolumne Cattlemen’s Association and the Grange. She served on the Calaveras County Unified School Board for several years in the 1950’s.
She is survived by sons Kelly (Yvonne) and Steven (Patricia) of Copperopolis, and Jonathan (Jane) of San Lucas, California, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be Friday Feb 24, 2012 from 1 till 7 p.m. at Angels Memorial Chapel. Funeral Services will private.
Interment will be at People’s Cemetery in San Andreas.
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