Her mother named her Elizabeth, but she was usually called Betty. Since she was the youngest of her mother’s four children, her maternal relatives referred to her as Baby Beth. This was a moniker that she disdained but tolerated most of her young life.

Unwanted before even being born, Betty goes through life feeling rejected by just about everybody in her family. Living in poverty, nobody at school wanted to befriend her either, so she walked aimlessly through her boring existence. When she was playing outside of her family’s home one Sunday morning, a bus drove past. School was out for the summer, and even if it was in session, the bus didn’t run on this particular day of the week.

She read the name on the side of it and found out that a local church provided a ride to attend their services. As a young teenager, she had no friends or direction in life; maybe this would be the way out of her depression and into a new way of dealing with things.