By Mark Hounsell, Special to The Conway Daily Sun
Over 103 years ago, Betty Hounsell was born in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Raised properly alongside her sister and brothers in Colebrook by caring, devoted parents, she later moved south to Conway with her beloved husband, William “Ted” Hounsell, and their 2-year-old son, Bill, in 1945.
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