Rachel 'Betty' Ethelyn Lovell Fountain, 94
Rachel “Betty” Lovell Fountain, past away peacefully at the Heritage Place in Kalispell on the 22nd of July 2017.
Betty was born in Rockingham, Vermont, on Aug. 9, 1922, to Clair Milan and Lucy Jane Olmstead Lovell. She grew up in White River Junction, Vermont, and graduated from Hartford High School in 1941. Betty attended Hartford Hospital School of Nursing in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Gifford Memorial Hospital in Randolph, Vermont, in 1945.
She married Cpl. Leland Herbert Fountain, U.S. Marine Corps, on Jan. 9, 1945, in South Royalton, Vermont. They were blessed with three children, Richard Clair and Betty Lee (twins) and daughter Dale Ann.
Betty and here husband owned and operated Lee Fountain’s Electrical Service in White River Junction. Betty worked at the Alice Peck Day Hospital, Lebanon, New Hampshire, Mary Hitchcock Hospital and the Hitchcock Clinic in Hanover, New Hampshire. The family moved to Chandler, Arizona, in 1965 where she worked at the Chandler Hospital as education director. While working in Arizona, Betty was nominated to and published in “Who’s Who of American Women” from 1977-1980.
She was a Past Matron of Wenona Chapter No. 43 Order of the Eastern Star. She was active with the Rainbow Girls and in the United Methodist Church in White River Junction. Betty and her husband were active in the Kalispell First Church of the Nazarene, Kalispell.
Betty was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Leland H. Fountain; her son, Richard Clair Fountain; her bother, Clair Maitland Lovell; her parents, Clair and Lucy Lovell; grandparents, Maitland and Ethelyn Lovell; and sister-in-law, Lillian Fellows Abbott.
She is survived by her daughters, Betty Lee, and her husband Henry Cichowski of Kila, and Dale Ann and husband Warren Whitney of Placerville, California, daughter-in-law, Sue Fountain, of Lakeside, Arizona; seven grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Per Betty’s request there will be no services here in Kalispell. Lee and Betty will be taken home to Hartford, Vermont, where they will be laid to rest together at a graveside gathering.
To send a note of condolence to the family, please visit www.buffalohillfh.com. Buffalo Hill Funeral Home is caring for the family.