I was friends with Beth at Amphi, we were the two Beths. By our senior year, I can honestly say she was the best friend I had at Amphi. I appreciated her friendship more than I can adequately express at this time. I lived out of the district and had to drive to school, so I often offered Beth rides home after school. Then, sometime during senior year she inherited a car…. Maybe from her uncle??? Not sure about that… but it was a Toyota Corona. So then she offered me rides. It was a very interesting car to ride in. We used to have long conversations about Seinfeld… so much that I wonder if she ever petitioned to name one of her kids Cosmo?? We both got our first jobs at Church’s Chicken at Oracle and Magee (it’s a Panda Express now). Beth was far more successful at that job than I was… I only lasted a couple of months (fried chicken is not for the weak). But I remember that we both started the job just in time to attend the annual employee event CHICKEN WARS ‘92. I’ll never forget being at CHICKEN WARS and locking eyes with Beth and thinking, “What did we get ourselves into???”. 

          We wrote snail mail letters while Beth attended LaVerne College, but when she came back to the UofA, we somehow lost touch. At this point in our lives we were Facebook friends. A couple of times over the years we ran into each other at mall play areas and our kids even played together a bit while we got to catch up. I loved following Beth’s Facebook posts with pictures of her kids. Her incredible love for her family was evident in those posts. I also loved her beer date night posts!!!! I also love beer at this point in my life 😂❤️. 

           Jim, I can’t imagine the tremendous loss that you and your family are feeling. Just know that she was loved at every stage of her life. 

Beth was always a stickler for correct usage of grammar and spelling. She would always make sarcastic comments if someone used "their" vs "they're" or whatever incorrectly.  Here she is giving me a hard time about my choice of words.

Those of you that knew her or worked with her...I'm sure you must have seen this at some point.