MOORHEAD, Minn. - Betty L. Kuka, 84, a longtime Havre resident and elementary school teacher, died quietly Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003, a Fargo, N.D. hospital.

A private memorial service in Moorhead has been held and a date for a memorial service in Havre is to be announced.

Betty was born Archie and Betty

Lou Richey Taylor on Aug. 2, 1919, in Richey. She grew up in Frazer, where her father was the depot agent for the Great Northern Railway. Upon graduation from Frazer High School in 1937, she attended Northern Montana College, where she obtained her original teaching certificate. Her first teach...