St Oswald's Magazine StOM 1511 | Page 16

Elizabeth “Betty” Whyteside 14/02/1922 – 19/09/2015 Born in Anderson, Betty was the eldest of two sisters and, as a child, had the “distinction” of surviving being run over by a Glasgow Tram! She worked as waitress in a tearoom before being called up to serve in WAAF with Coast Command on air-sea rescue. Her war service over, Betty’s witnessed her sister’s marriage to John Whyteside and it was through this union that Betty met up with her future husband, John’s brother Jim. Betty and Jim’s first child, Margaret, arrived in November of that year but her life was to be tragically cut short by kidney disease which claimed her at the age of ten! By then, second daughter Joan, had arrived and, although briefly contemplating a new life in Canada, they remained in Scotland and their grief at Margaret’s loss must have been eased at least a little with the surprise arrival of son Jim in