Elizabeth (Betsy) Gridley Peters Callahan died at home in Vero Beach, on Dec. 23, 2013.
She was the daughter of the late Dr. Frank Hart Peters and the late Betty Jackson Peters of New York City and Wainscot, LI.
Survivors include her husband of 58 years, Paul A. Callahan; daughters Elizabeth Morley Callahan, of Otego, N.Y., Anne Gridley Graves (Gary), of Raubsville, Pa.; son Peter Hart Callahan (Josephine), of Haverford, Pa., New York City, and Nantucket; and two grandchildren, P. Hart Callahan Jr., of Newport, R.I., and Juliet Wetherill Callahan, of Haverford, Pa.
She attended the Nightingale Bamford School in New York City and graduated from St. Mary’s Episcopal in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Married in 1955, she raised her children in Greenwich, Conn.
She belonged to The Green Fingers Garden Club and, at various times, to The Belle Haven Club, Greenwich Field Club, Indian Harbor Yacht Club, all of Greenwich, the Nantucket Yacht Club, Nantucket, Mass., the Moorings Yacht and Country Club in Vero Beach and was the current President of the Sea Oats Garden Club in Vero Beach.
She was co-owner of Thimbles Inc., a needlepoint and yarn store in Greenwich from 1975 to 1982.
During the 1980s, she was vice president and a board member of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital and a member of the Nantucket Garden Club.
In Vero Beach, she was a long-time volunteer, former Board member, and current advisor of McKee Botanical Garden, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Moorings Property Owners Association.
A memorial service will be held at St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Vero Beach on February 1 at 11 a.m.
Burial will be private.
In lieu of flowers, contributions would be appreciated to McKee Botanical Garden, 350 South U.S. 1, Vero Beach, FL.
An online guestbook may be signed at www.lowtherfh@aol.com.
