 LOCKHART, ELIZABETH A. (BETTY) Betty Lockhart died on Thursday, December 4th from complications from advanced Alzheimer's disease. She was well over twenty-one. Betty received a Masters' Degree in Medical Bacteriology from UNM and went on to work in the research department at the Veteran's Hospital where she was published in the AMA Journal repeatedly in the 1960s. After the VA discontinued its burn unit research, she worked for numerous doctors' offices before opening a Merle Norman store in the 1970s. She returned to the medical field for the remainder of the twentieth century, moving into accounting at the end of her working years with husband of 53 years, Richard Lockhart until his death in 2006. Betty was never at rest; she worked full time, volunteered for the United Way, assisted friends and colleagues, was active in the Rio Rancho Rotary, and raised her daughter and numerous dogs and cats with aplomb. Her husband Dick's death in '06 left her devastated and she never recovered from it, slipping into dementia and Alzheimer's disease in 2008. There are not appropriate superlative words to use to describe the difference she made in the lives of those who loved her. Betty is survived by her daughter Michele Lockhart-Henry and her husband Ed Henry; many valued friends who were family to her; and her three chihuahuas. A memorial is planned for late April for both Betty and Dick near the date of their wedding anniversary.
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