Remembering Elizabeth Tevenan

Age 82, Brewster, Mass.
Passed away on April 24, 2020

Elizabeth “Betty” Tevenan, 82, of Dennis passed away Friday April 24, 2020, at Pleasant Bay Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Brewster, of complications from Covid-19.

Born in White Plains, NY, Betty was the daughter of the late Edward and Ethel (Livesley) Griswold. She grew up in Sandwich and graduated from the H.T. Wing School in 1955.

In 1975, she met the love of her life John “Jack” Tevenan and they were married for more than 25 years, until he passed away in 2008. She and Jack loved to travel and spent many weekends doing “a tank-away” trips around New England. They especially loved to stay in Boston taking in the history and culture as Jack had grown up in “Southie”. One of her most memorable and exciting trips was spending several weeks in Ireland visiting Jack’s relatives and attending a family wedding.

Betty worked as a unit clerk on the orthopedic wing of Cape Cod Hospital for twenty-five years, before she retired in 2004. She and Jack then moved to Leesburg, FL. They relished their time in their retirement home, until Jack passed away. To be close to family, Betty moved back to the Cape in 2011.

Betty was a social butterfly at Pleasant Bay, always wanting to help out with arts and crafts activities, doing jig-saw puzzles and getting the friends in her wing to play Rummy. She was a sweetheart and will be sorely missed by those who knew and loved her.

Betty is survived by her daughters, Sheryl A. McMahon of Dennis and Kathleen Driscoll of Centerville; six grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. In addition to her husband and parents, she was predeceased by her brother, Robert Griswold and her daughter, Pamela Rodriquez.

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