Betty Louise Wicksted

Betty Louise Wicksted, 91, passed away peacefully in her sleep on June 26, 2022, in her apartment at Carlton Senior Living where she resided for 3 years. A Celebration of Life will be held at 10:00 a.m., August 29, 2022, at East Lawn Mortuary Chapel in Sacramento, CA. Inurnment will follow the services.  In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or a Round Dance Association of your choice.

 Betty was born November 26, 1930, in Hays, Kansas, to Opal and Charlie Balls. She grew up with her younger sister. Betty married when she was 18 to Charles Ellsworth Carpenter. They were married 11 years. Betty and Charles had 3 daughters, Susan Elaine, Linda Kay, and Janet Lee. Betty also raised and accepted as her daughter, her sister Barbara’s daughter, Robin, after Barbara passed away.

Betty married Miles Robert (Bob) Dean in 1964. During their 31 years of marriage, Betty and Bob established “Dancing Demons” Round Dance club and taught Round Dancing beginning in 1964 and continued until Bob passed away in 1995. During that time, they were also leaders of the Silhouettes, a teen round dancing exhibition group, taking the group to many exhibitions around the country.

Betty married Glenn Elston in 2000.  Betty and Glenn met through Widowed Persons Group in Sacramento and together enjoyed round dancing, golf, and music of all kinds. They were happily married until Glenn passed away in May of 2005.

In 2007, Betty met the love of her life, Thomas Robert Wicksted.  They were married April 12, 2008.  Their marriage created a blended family that included Betty’s children and Tom’s three children: Michael, Janet, and Cathy. Betty and Tom loved to round dance, play bridge and golf, and to travel. They co-taught round dance classes in the Sacramento area.  Tom passed away in 2019.

Betty worked for PG&E for 35 years. She began in 1962 in a “one-clerk” customer service office in Central Valley and progressed through the company to the rank of District Manager then Division Manager. Throughout the years, she received many accolades and awards for her service and accomplishments.  In 1993, she received the California History Museum’s Women in History Award, in part for being the first woman to ever serve as a Division Manager and District Manager at PG&E. In recent years, Betty struggled with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s that ultimately contributed to her passing. Betty was preceded in death by her parents, Opal and Charlie Balls, her daughter Janet (Colomb) Dean, step-daughter, Cathy (Kanoe) Wicksted, and husbands Bob Dean, Glenn Elston, and Tom Wicksted.

Betty was a proud and loving wife, mother, aunt, and grandmother. she is survived by her daughters Susan, Linda, Robin, step-son Michael Wicksted, and step-daughter Janet Vorwerck plus 23 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandchild.  Betty would want to include her many nephews and nieces as surviving relatives.

Please go to the link below for a digital guest book link. Please share you love, messages, stories, condolences, pictures and or whatever your heart is feeling about Betty. It will all be printed into a beautiful hard bound book and delivered to the family. When the contributions are complete, all that have contributed will get an email offering an option to purchase one yourself.

Please go to the link below for a digital guest book link. Please share you love, messages, stories, condolences, pictures and or whatever your heart is feeling about Betty. It will all be printed into a beautiful hard bound book and delivered to the family. When the contributions are complete, all that have contributed will get an email offering an option to purchase one yourself.

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