Betty Bennett
News Staff
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Betty L. Micheel was born to Carl A. and Ruth (Keller) Micheel, on September 30, 1930, in Nebraska. She was the youngest of eight children. Her mother (Ruth) died when Betty was two years old, and she was raised by her father. She attended grade school in the Brownlee and Woodlake, NE, area before the family moved to the ranch south of Martin on LaCreek, in 1941. She attended grade school and high school in Bennett County, graduating from high school in 1948. She spent most of her young life riding horses, (since age two as told by her father).