Visitation
May 6, 2011
2:00-4:00 & 7:00-9:00 P.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD [Map]
Funeral Service
May 7, 2011
11:00 A.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD [Map]
Interment
Location: Maryland Veteran's Cemetery Cheltenham [Map]
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Elizabeth Beitzell “Betty” Zeleski, 91, of Tracy’s Landing, MD passed away April 29, 2011 at her residence after a lengthy illness. Betty was born July 28, 1919 in Washington, D.C. to Charles B. and Janie (Miller) Beitzell. She was raised in the District and graduated from Roosevelt High School, class of 1937. She attended business school for one year, receiving secretarial training, and was employed by the Sheet Metal Union in Washington, D.C. as a secretary. She married Leo F. Zeleski January 14, 1945 and they lived in Washington and later Takoma Park, MD, and moved in 1954 to their bay front home in Fairhaven, a part of Tracy’s Landing, MD. Betty worked as a secretary at Tracey’s Elementary in Tracy’s Landing from 1955 until her retirement in 1979. Prior to the death of her husband Leo in 1995, Betty was a very active member of the American Legion Stallings-Williams Ladies Auxiliary Unit 206 in Chesapeake Beach, MD. In her leisure time she enjoyed gardening, reading romance novels and crabbing on the Chesapeake Bay.
In addition to her husband, Betty was preceded in death by a daughter Carol Ann Zeleski. She is survived by her son Charles L. Zeleski and his fiancé Lois Hughes of Hanover, PA; grandchildren Stacia Hoots and husband Kent of Adelaide, Australia, Lisa Wheeler of Harwood, MD and Bethany Zeleski of Sykesville, MD; and great-grandchildren Nicholas Zeleski, Logan and Jordan Wheeler and Andrew Hoots.
Memorial Contributions
Expressions of sympathy in Betty’s name may be made to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 6 Herndon Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21403 or online at www.cbf.org
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