We known as her, “Mother.” She was brilliant, lovely, bountiful, and courageous. This excellent daughter, sister, spouse, devoted mom of 4, grandmother of eighteen, great-grandmother to 1 and religious follower of Jesus Christ is now with our Lord and Savior. She personified Solomon’s description of “A spouse of noble character” in Proverbs 31:10-31.
Generally known as “Betsy” to household and associates, she was born in Somerset, PA, to James Roy Stuart and Frances Lesesne Dornin and raised on their beloved household farm along with her two older sisters, Sally Hunt Stuart and Tait Stuart (Livingood). All of them predeceased her.
Betsy graduated from Somerset County Excessive Faculty in 1963, attended Longwood School in Virginia and graduated from Pennsylvania State College in 1967. She accepted employment with the Hecht Firm in Maryland, the place she rapidly turned a retail gross sales supervisor.
One among her salesclerks, Kathy Finneran, organized a blind date for Betsy along with her cousin, Midshipman Oliver L. North who was finishing his remaining yr on the US Naval Academy. He gained her hand and Betsy helped pin Second Lieutenant’s bars on the shoulders of her newly commissioned Marine Officer on June sixth, 1968. They had been married on November 13, 1968, on the U.S. Marine Memorial Chapel in Quantico, Virginia.
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Elizabeth Stuart North, spouse of retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, has died. (The North Household)
Their deliberate month-long, cross-country honeymoon drive throughout America was abbreviated by emergency orders for him to report ASAP for deployment to Vietnam. Her response: “If we team-drive, continuous, we will be in California on time.” They did.
When Betsy gave delivery in U.S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, to Elizabeth Tait, the firstborn of 4 kids, she mailed a photograph to her wounded husband in Vietnam, displaying one other wounded U.S. Marine holding their day-old daughter. On the again of the image Betsy wrote: “Our daughter is gorgeous. Praying you reside to carry her. Love, Betsy.”
Over the subsequent 13 years, she delivered Stuart, Sarah, and Dornin, all in Naval hospitals. As a “navy migrant household,” Betsy packed and unpacked our family results and dried our tears at leaving associates as we moved eight instances, out and in of navy housing and 4 properties she discovered, organized mortgages to purchase, and offered, all the time for a revenue.
At each “responsibility station” she discovered “a church for us to worship collectively,” and the most effective academic alternative for every of us from house college to public, Christian and personal colleges all through our childhoods. She tutored us in each topic from math to manners and coached us by means of faculty purposes.
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Studying, PA – November 12: Oliver North speaks throughout this system. Throughout the “Honoring those that serve” profit luncheon for Berks County Veterans on the DoubleTree by Hilton Resort in Studying Pennsylvania Friday afternoon November 12, 2021 the place Lt Col Oliver North was the visitor speaker. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Studying Eagle through Getty Pictures)
An achieved equestrienne, Betsy impressed her ladies to succeed aboard more and more difficult mounts from ponies to horses competing in worldwide occasions. By some means, she made time to look at and encourage Stuart in Tee-ball, baseball, wrestling, lacrosse, soccer, and soccer. She beloved to introduce Stuart as her “favourite son.”
Betsy knew the foundations of each sport through which we had been engaged and will precisely protest what she deemed a “unhealthy name” by a choose, umpire or referee. When the end result of an occasion, match, or recreation was lower than we hoped for, she would encourage us with: “At the moment was a studying expertise, so you are able to do higher subsequent time.”
In 1981, Dad was assigned to responsibility on President Ronald Reagan’s Nationwide Safety Council workers. For higher than 5 years none of us, Betsy included, knew a lot about what Dad was doing, although it appeared he was gone greater than he was house. All that modified in November 1986. Abruptly, our home in Nice Falls, VA was surrounded 24/7 for months by scores of reporters and cameras.
From 1986-1991, Betsy was a rock of stability and affection for our household throughout Congressional hearings and the longest, costliest “Particular Counsel” prosecution in U.S. Historical past. All through, her constant admonition to us all was: “Cease studying the headlines of the ‘Washington Compost!’ Learn your Bible as an alternative. That is all going to finish nicely!” Finally, it did.
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In February 1987, the FBI decided an Islamic Jihad terror cell was covertly making ready an assault on our house. To guard us, the Naval Intelligence Service secretly transported us to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina – making Betsy the primary navy spouse and mom for the reason that Civil Warfare to be pressured to flee her house due to her husband’s service.
We moved to Narnia Farm in Clarke County, Virginia in 1990, the identical yr Dad based Freedom Alliance. Betsy beloved being surrounded by cattle, horses, and internet hosting household and associates from world wide within the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, above the Shenandoah River. All three daughters celebrated our marriages right here. When Betsy’s sister Sally retired from a lifetime of instructing, Mother designed, financed, and constructed a beautiful log cabin for her on the west slope of the mountain.
On New Yr’s Day 2021, Betsy fell and broke her hip at Cair Paravel, the attractive South Carolina seaside home she designed, financed and constructed. In April 2021, Dad took her to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN the place she was identified with a uncommon, lethal, degenerative illness: Corticobasal Syndrome.
Her remark on the time: “God has helped us adapt and overcome each adversity. Pray we will beat this one too!”
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It was to not be. By year-end 2022, Betsy’s situation had deteriorated to the purpose the place Dr. Alexis McCabe, the Winchester, VA Emergency Middle’s chief medical officer and a fight adorned U.S. Marine Reserve Lt. Col, F-18 pilot, informed Dad we must always contact hospice.
Dad objected, “We don’t want hospice! We’re caring for her very nicely at house!” Dr. McCabe’s calm response: “Betsy could not want it fairly but, however you want hospice now!” He lastly relented and he or she made the decision.
Blue Ridge Hospice arrived at Narnia Farm on 9 January 2023. They had been a Godsend. For practically two years, Dr. Brendan Flynn, DO, and his phenomenal crew, particularly, Laura J., Lucy, Laura F., Lauren, Maria, and Leigh, et al, offered important medical gear, oxygen, lots of of prescriptions, and guided us on each potential side of look after a dying beloved one. Debra, Shannon, Tammy, Jennifer, and Princess, our 5 privately retained, light, loving, skilled, and authorized caregivers had been merely indispensable.
Betsy left us on November sixteenth, 2024, simply three days after Mother and Dad’s 56th Anniversary. She is now within the loving embrace of our Lord and Savior, and we have fun her extraordinary life. But, we are going to all miss doing along with her that which she beloved to do with us and so a lot of you.
There can be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands. Our household will welcome family and friends on the parish corridor following the service. Betsy’s interment at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery can be held at a future date.
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Preparations: Corridor Funeral House www.hallfh.com 540-338-5561.
In lieu of flowers, please make a present in Betsy’s title to any or the entire following:
Blue Ridge Hospice (www.brhospice.org/donate/)
Freedom Alliance (www.freedomalliance.org);
Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands (www.contact@oursaviouroatlands.org)
Editor’s be aware: This obituary of Elizabeth Stuart North was reposted from Corridor Funeral House with permission from the North household.
