BOLIVAR - Elizabeth Hanley “Bettie” Dunn, 91, of 171 Olive
Street, passed away Tuesday, June 4, 2019 following a brief illness. Daughter of Margaret G. and William J. Hanley
she was born on April 6, 1928 in Hartford, CT.
A 1946 graduate of Norwalk High School, she majored in Spanish at
Emmanuel College in Boston and was graduated in 1950 with her bachelor’s
degree.
She taught first grade in Fairfield, CT for four years
before accepting a position with the Department of the Army in Aschaffenberg,
Germany teaching American children of military families. During her two years in Germany she began
what became an extensive collection of chimney sweeps, a symbol of good luck,
and enjoyed traveling throughout Europe.
After returning to the United States she taught in Westport, CT and then
took another assignment teaching in Lagunillas, Estado Zulia, Venezuela. It was in Venezuela that she met her husband
James E. Dunn. Married in 1959 they enjoyed 58 years of marriage.
She earned her master’s degree from St. Bonaventure
University in 1977 and substitute taught for many years in area schools. She shared her teaching talents and deep
faith as a religious education teacher and was a long-time trustee and
treasurer of the Bolivar Free Library. A
past member of St. Mary’s Altar and Rosary Society and the Little Genesee
Garden Club, a leader for church discussion groups, and a former Cub Scout Den
Mother, she was an avid reader, lover of her Springer Spaniels, and a talented
seamstress. She loved observing the
wildlife from the picture windows of her home on the hill where her favorite
color was evident in the décor of her kitchen where even the refrigerator was
pink!
Surviving are her brother Francis G. Hanley of Clayton, GA,
brother-in-law Thomas J. Dunn of Bolivar, daughter Christine A. Dunn of
Burbank, CA, son, Patrick J. Dunn of Bolivar, daughter Margaret Dunn Rollins
and her husband Patrick M. Rollins and grandchildren Catherine, Matthias and
Elizabeth Rollins, all of Canandaigua, NY and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her brothers
William J. Hanley Jr. and Thomas C. Hanley, her sisters-in-law Barbara A. Dunn,
M. Jane Hanley and Linda S. Hanley, brother-in-law Clifton J. Morris, and a son
Timothy J. Dunn.
Friends may call at the Schaffner Funeral Home, 554 South
Main Street, Bolivar, on Friday, June 7, 2019 from 4 to 7 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated
on Saturday, June 8, 2019 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Church, Bolivar. Burial will be at St. Mary’s Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to St. Mary’s Church, 111 Wellsville
St., Bolivar, NY 14715 or the Bolivar Free Library, 390 Main Street, Bolivar,
NY 14715.
The family would like to thank all the wonderful caregivers
at Manor Hills and Highland Hospital.
