Betty Rossi

Lifelong Melrose resident blessed with one husband, one son and one daughter, two granddaughters and three grandsons.
During the course of my life I was a Traffic Supervisor for the City of Melrose, Police Matron for Melrose, Medford, Wakefield and Malden, Legal Secretary for David J. Saliba, Tax Litigation Attorney in Boston for seven years, worked at the State House as Administrative Assistant to the Commissioner of State Office Buildings and for the City of Melrose under five mayors. Pianist, watercolorist, avid reader, crossword puzzle lover, former manager of National Little League “Expos” team and formerly on the Board of Directors for the American Cancer Fund, with Margarie Cotton, was on Melrose National Little League Board, designed the arm patch for the “Junior police girls”, lover of the poetry of Edgar Guest and Eugene Field and the poets of the old West.
Lived, worked and got married in Karlsruhe, Germany, bought a Renault R8 and traveled all over Europe. My father was born and raised in Utah, and as a child, we traveled by car (some times took us two weeks to get there) to Salt Lake City and Yakima, Washington every other year to see my grandparents and relatives. Been to Indian pow wows, cattle drives, pitched hay and picked asparagus, milked cows and goats (you worked when you came from the West and wanted to eat), been to all of our National Parks and had a truly great life.

Additional Articles by Betty :

id 18000 Great news -- Features 5/6/11
id 18199 Melrose goes Hawaiian, Luau rocks senior center -- Features 7/1/11
id 18153 Rolling Thunder -- Features 7/1/11
id 18038 Chair Caning at the Senior Center -- Features 7/1/11
id 18316 A word on our ancestors -- Random Thoughts 8/5/11
id 18307 On vacations: At the movies on Cape Cod -- Features 8/5/11
id 18440 Things my mother said --Random Thoughts 10/7/11
id 18530 A mouse in the house --Poetry 10/7/11
id 18558 More on things my mother used to say --Features 11/4/11
id 18655Putting away her dancing shoes --Features 11/4/11
id 18591Memories of Thanksgivings past --Features 11/4/11
id 18592Home remedies that we remember --Features 11/4/11
id 18723Thanksgiving is over --Features 12/2/11
id 18592Home remedies that we remember --Features 12/2/11
id 18968Origami class at the Senior Center --Features 2/3/12
id 19015Gramma's bread --Recipes 3/2/12
id 19016Polenta bread --Recipes 3/2/12
id 18971Wow! What a send-off --Letters to... 3/2/12
id 19059I hum --Random Thoughts 4/6/12
id 19057Lent. A time of reflection --Random Thoughts 4/6/12
id 19169My memories of Memorial Hall --Random Thoughts 5/4/12
id 19118The Great Escape --Features 5/4/12
id 19172Happy Mother's Day, Rose --Features 5/4/12
id 19193Jaelyn's new hat --Features 6/1/12
id 19236Bob's lentils --Recipes 6/1/12
id 19351The block party --Features 7/6/12
id 19380Jibber jabber --Features 7/6/12
id 19399The Storm --Features 7/6/12
id 19460 Time began in a garden --Features 8/3/12
id 19483Sandcastles --Features 8/3/12
id 19490Betty's potato salad --Food/Recipes 8/3/12
id 19525My dad came from Salt Lake City -- Features 9/7/12
id 19511Dorothy's blueberry soup -- Food/Recipes 9/7/12
id 19634Old Spices -- Features 10/5/12
id 19617Apple picking -- Features 10/5/12
id 19784Pumpkin picking -- Feature 11/2/12
id 19785Museum of Natural History -- Feature 11/2/12
id 19190Jaelyn wants snow -- Feature 12/7/12
id 19874A kiss is still a kiss -- Feature 12/7/12
id 19873My favorite Christmas recipes -- Food/Recipes 12/7/12
id 19977They say that La Befano is the Giver of Gifts -- Feature 1/4/13

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