Elizabeth (Bette) Wilson March 23, 1927 – Dec. 10, 2019

Elizabeth (Bette) Wilson, age 92, died Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019 at the Regional Hospital, Manchester, following a brief illness. 

Funeral services were held 10:30 a.m. Monday morning, Dec. 16, 2019, at the Hopkinton Community Center where friends called after 9:30 a.m. Interment was in the Hopkinton Cemetery. Goettsch Funeral Home has taken Betty and her family into their care. 

Surviving is her daughter Lynn Swanson, Necedah, Wis., five grandchildren, Denise (Larry) Vance, Randy (Stacey Martinsen) Less, Rhonda Marty, Tommy (Sarah Wolf) Wilson and Stacy Less, 20 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren and special care givers, Kim Less and Jan Lamont. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Donald, a son Bob, a daughter Kay Less, a granddaughter Vanessa Husmann, her sister, Rhoda Hughes, and two brothers, Ralph and Johnny Hageman. 

Elizabeth Jane Hageman was born March 23, 1927 in Delaware County, Iowa. She was the daughter of Clarence and Ella Tibbits, Hageman. Bette graduated from the Hopkinton Schools. She married Donald Wilson on June 20, 1945 at Hopkinton. She operated Bette’s Café in several locations in Hopkinton and also was employed at Collins Radio for 20 years.