Bettie Crutcher
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Bettie Crutcher (born September 24, 1938 - died November 23, 1994) was a registered pediatric nurse and the wife of bookstore owner Gene Crutcher. She met Crutcher while a student at Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee and came with him to Birmingham in 1954.
In addition to nursing, Bettie worked at the bookstore as a bookkeeper. She and Gene had six children, Annie, Beth, Kay, Bill, David, and Sara.
In the 1970s she was diagnosed with polycistic kidney disease. A benefit concert was staged at Bell Auditorium in 1973 to help pay for her dialysis treatment, which she continued until her death.
References
- Swindle, Michael (2005) "The 'City Lights Bookstore' of Birmingham, Alabama, Prop. Gene Crutcher: A Remembrance" in Slouching towards Birmingham: Shotgun Golf, Hog Hunting, Ass-Hauling Alligators, Rara in Haiti, Zapatistas, and Anahuac New Year's in Mexico City. North Atlantic Books, pp. 163-170. Rpt. at Personal Stories from Southside, ed. by Steven Ford Brown
