People named Betty Allen

Betty J Allen of Eugene, Lane County, OR was born on January 19, 1922, and died at age 79 years old on October 18, 2001. Betty Allen was buried at Willamette National Cemetery Section 2 Site 739 11800 Se Mt. Scott Boulevard, in Portland.

Betty J Allen of Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, MO was born on April 10, 1926, and died at age 81 years old on January 10, 2008. Betty Allen was buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Section HH Site 413 2900 Sheridan Road, in St. Louis.

Betty J Allen of Austin, Travis County, TX was born on September 23, 1933, and died at age 54 years old on July 7, 1988.

Betty S (Amox) Allen of Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas was born on January 3, 1958, and died at age 25 years old in September 1983.

Betty Earnestine Allen of Houston, Harris County, Texas was born on October 3, 1932, and died at age 74 years old on February 15, 2007.

Betty Dee Allen of Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas was born on November 28, 1931, and died at age 78 years old on December 4, 2009.

Betty L Allen of Dallas, Dallas County, TX was born on August 9, 1942, and died at age 53 years old on March 26, 1996.

Betty J Allen of Houston, Harris County, TX was born on December 8, 1958, and died at age 44 years old on October 22, 2003.

Betty F Allen of Mesquite, Dallas County, TX was born on July 17, 1931, and died at age 56 years old in December 1987.

Betty J Allen of Dallas, Dallas County, TX was born on June 12, 1934, and died at age 68 years old on August 5, 2002.

Betty L Allen of Jacksonville, Cherokee County, TX was born on September 19, 1946, and died at age 58 years old on August 23, 2005.

Betty J Allen of Lindsay, Cooke County, TX was born on May 19, 1929, and died at age 71 years old on September 16, 2000.

Betty F Allen of Humble, Harris County, Texas was born on February 7, 1929, and died at age 58 years old in March 1987.

Betty J Allen of Frankston, Anderson County, TX was born on January 25, 1935, and died at age 64 years old on November 9, 1999.

Betty Lorene Allen of Houston, Harris County, TX was born on September 11, 1927, and died at age 67 years old on November 13, 1994. Betty Allen was buried at Houston National Cemetery Section J Site 573 10410 Veterans Memorial Drive, in Houston.

Betty J Allen of Mesquite, Dallas County, TX was born on July 18, 1940, and died at age 58 years old on June 17, 1999.

Betty M Allen of Mansfield, Tarrant County, TX was born on April 8, 1925, and died at age 77 years old on March 20, 2003.

Betty L Allen of Rockwall, Rockwall County, TX was born on January 21, 1943, and died at age 57 years old on August 22, 2000.

Betty M Allen of Galesburg, Knox County, Texas was born on August 17, 1924, and died at age 86 years old on May 2, 2011.

Betty A Allen of Childress, Childress County, TX was born on February 25, 1936, and died at age 61 years old on August 20, 1997.

Betty J Allen of Harris County, TX was born circa 1941. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Betty J. (Dyke) Allen.

Betty J (Allen) Holmes of TX was born circa 1948. Betty Allen was married to Edgar Holmes Jr on December 31, 1997 in Harris County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Betty J Allen Holmes.

Betty L Allen of Carson City, Carson City County, Nevada was born on August 3, 1929, and died at age 83 years old on February 2, 2013. Betty Allen was buried at Rock Island National Cemetery Section R Site 375 Bldg 118 - Rock Island Arsenal, in Rock Island, Il.

Betty Jane Allen of Sun City West, Maricopa County, Arizona was born on October 2, 1920, and died at age 90 years old on November 26, 2010. Betty Allen was buried at Great Lakes National Cemetery Section 3 Site 284 Belford Road, in Holly, Mi.

Betty Allen died in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Betty Jean (Mcdade) Allen.

Betty C Allen of Comal County, TX was born circa 1955. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Betty C. (Giesecke) Allen.

Betty Allen dies at 82; mezzo-soprano and music teacher By BY EMILY LANGER JUL 27, 2009 | Betty Allen, one of the first African American singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died June 22 of complications from kidney disease at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82. If contralto Marian Anderson in the 1930s and 1940s represented the first generation of black opera stars, then Allen belonged to the second, along with Leontyne Price and Shirley Verrett and Grace Bumbry. At the height of her vocal power from the 1950s through the 1970s, Allen "sang with a glory of sound that would honor any performance," wrote Washington Post critic Paul Hume. Even as a performer in her 20s, she earned the respect of conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, who invited her to sing in his "Jeremiah" symphony. Allen was a mezzo-soprano, meaning that her voice was lower than that of a soprano. While sopranos tend to play glamorous or delicate women, mezzos are often cast as evil or brooding ones, and Allen played those roles to their fullest. She made her formal operatic debut in 1964 at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as Jocasta in Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex"; Jocasta hangs herself at the end. She said Azucena, the raving gypsy in Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore," was her favorite role because "she's absolutely nuts." With the Metropolitan Opera, she sang in "Four Saints in Three Acts," an opera by Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein. Thomson, the highly respected composer and music critic, would later write music specifically for her. Off stage, Allen distinguished herself as a teacher and mentor. She was the executive director of the Harlem School of the Arts and taught at the Manhattan School of Music, among other places. She was particularly devoted to introducing classical music to children who, like her, had grown up in poverty. Elizabeth Louise Allen was born in Campbell, a steel boomtown in northeastern Ohio, on March 17, 1927. Her father worked in the steel mills, her mother as a laundress with the two Maytag machines the family owned. Allen first heard opera arias as they floated from neighbors' windows during the Met's radio broadcasts. "The families on my street were mostly Sicilian and Greek," she told the New York Times. "On Saturday, walking down the street, you could hear the . . . broadcasts coming from the windows of everybody's house. No one told them that opera and the arts were not for them, not for poor people, just for rich snobs." As an adolescent, Allen lost her mother to cancer, and her father began drinking heavily. She left home one day, caught a bus to nearby Youngstown and put herself up for adoption. "That judge didn't know what to do with me," she told the New York Times. "In those days, there was no orphanage for black children. You either had to be put in a detention home or you were put in a foster home. I chose to be put in foster homes." A scholarship took her to Wilberforce College in Ohio, a historically black school. She had planned to study languages and become a translator, but that changed when a professor who had been an opera performer urged her to join the college chorus. There she became convinced that she could have a career as a singer. She later attended the Hartford School of Music in Connecticut and what is now the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts. Survivors include her husband, Ritten Edward Lee II of Bronxville, N.Y.; two children, Anthony Lee of Bronxville and Juliana Lee of the Bronx; and three grandchildren.

Betty J Allen of Cabot, Lonoke County, AR was born on October 17, 1927, and died at age 74 years old on July 16, 2002. Betty Allen was buried at Little Rock National Cemetery Section 22 Site 510 2523 Confederate Boulevard, in Little Rock.

Betty Jane Allen of Richmond, Chesterfield County, VA was born on March 20, 1926, and died at age 72 years old on July 11, 1998. Betty Allen was buried at Virginia Veterans Cemetery At Amelia Section 6 Row 7 Site 11 10300 Pridesville Road, in Amelia.