CELEBRATING ELIZABETH
Today we celebrated Elizabeth Novath Beller's life at her Memorial Service. December 4, 1916 ~June 30, 2015. Her parents immigrated from Hungary in 1910. The Honor Guard preformed their part with taps and presenting the flag to the family. While her husband was serving in the South Pacific, Elizabeth felt an obligation to help her husband as well as her country so in 1942 she joined the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corp known as the WAACs where she served for almost a year. After many years of war, she felt her husband, Charles had done more time than his share and wrote the Army requesting a furlough for her husband, but got no response. Finally she wrote to the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. A month or so later he was home on furlough. Then a few months later (nine to be exact) she had her first son, Charles Beller Jr. After the war they were stationed in the San Francisco Bay area where she had her second son, ...