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 and began dialysis treatment, which she continued until her death in 1994.
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