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Betty’s Birth Certificate

30 Monday May 2022

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Betty Marion White was very lucky to arrive safely into the world on January 17, 1922. As she wrote in 1987’s Betty White in Person (pages 118-119):

Having one child was not a considered decision on the part of my folks. A month before I was born, my mother was in a bad car accident, and the doctors were forced to patch up her skull fracture before they could worry about the baby. I managed to hang in there, but the question of more children was, by then, academic.

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Please observe:

  • Contrary to a popular assumption, Betty’s name was not “Elizabeth.” Betty has said in interviews that her mother wanted to avoid nicknames. She named her “Betty” and immediately began calling her “Bets.”
  • They put Crede’s silver nitrate solution in her eyes to protect them in the event her mother had gonorrhea.
  • Betty was born on a Tuesday evening.
  • Her parents’ residence was listed as being located at 220 Pleasant Street. That would have been this apartment building.

And Our First Item Is… The Marriage Certificate

18 Tuesday Oct 2011

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Allen Ludden, Betty White, Grant Tinker, Horace White, Mary Tyler Moore, Tess White, Vegas, Vital Records

Fittingly, we’ll start with the marriage certificate. Betty and Allen were married in Las Vegas at the Sands on Friday, June 14, 1963. The judge, David Zenoff, is the same one that married Allen’s BFF, Grant Tinker, to wife Mary Tyler Moore. Betty’s parents served as the witnesses.

Please observe:

  • Betty’s father, Horace White, had a signature that was quite similar to that of his daughter.
  • See the address written at the top? That’s likely Allen’s mailing address at the time; though the newlyweds and family would move into a different home within two months of the marriage.

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