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[Dan Swift]

Sad news indeed!  I so hoped she would have stayed alive long enough to 'witness' the discovery of the Electra, and the proof that her notebook was truthful and accurate!  RIP Betty!  It will still happen.

[Gloria Walker Burger]

Sad news. I, too, wish she would have lived to see the Electra found. She made such a great contribution to the Earhart disappearance.  R.I.P. Betty. 

[Chris Kuykendall]

This is her birthday (102).  The specific link I'm finding now for the PattersonIrrigator.com obituary, referenced at reply #23 of this thread, is:

https://www.ttownmedia.com/patterson_irrigator/news/obituaries/helen-betty-brown/article_480a3af9-4e73-54da-b421-ec842a9b661c.html

There's another obituary, behind a paywall, for which I paid $0.99 this morning.

Danville Commercial-News (Danville, Illinois), June 24, 2014.

https://obituaries.commercial-news.com/obituary/helen-brown-718122221

Helen "Betty" Brown passed away on June 18, 2014, in Turlock, Calif. She had just celebrated her 92nd birthday with her family.. She was born May 24, 1922, in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. She lived in the Rossville-Hoopeston area for 63 years and then moved to Patterson, Calif., in 2005 after her husband, Oliver Daniel Brown, passed away in October of 2004. She also was preceded in death by her parents, Kenneth and Olive Klenck, and her sister, Jeanne Klenck Tomasieski.. She was an amazing woman! Her life was full of adventuresome and interesting events - from how she met and married her husband "Brownie" to hearing distress calls from Amelia Earhart on her ham radio when she was just 15 years old. Her hand-written "notebook" is now in the Smithsonian Institute and has helped the "TIGHAR" Group in its continuing search for Amelia's plane. She had appeared in documentaries for both The Discovery Channel and The National Geographic Channel.. She also was an artist and an avid genealogy buff and had researched the family history back to the 1300s AD.. Her great love for her family gave her much happiness and enjoyment. She is survived by her daughter, Dona Brown Harper; her son, Daniel (Judy) Brown; and seven grandchildren, Timothy (Tobie) Moyles, Michael (Monica) Moyles, Sheila Moyles (Greg) Garfield, Shannon Moyles, Daniel Oliver (Kelly) Moyles, Toby (Paige) Brown and Tanja Brown Weinard; 14 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.. Per her wishes she was cremated. A visitation will be 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday June 30, at Anderson Funeral Home, 427 E. Main St., Hoopeston. A memorial service will follow the visitation at 1 p.m. Monday, June 30, at the funeral home with the Rev. James Batchelor officiating. Burial will be in Floral Hill Cemetery in Hoopeston.. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the TIGHAR Group-Amelia Earhart Project at www.tighar.org.

It turns out that you can't identify the grave site, at FindaGrave.com, by searching on Hoopeston, because Floral Hill Cemetery is listed there under Lovejoy Township, Illinois.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131990949/helen-brown

A township turns out to be a larger Illinois-specific geographic unit.  Google Maps show the cemetery to be north of Hoopeston about a mile, inside the township, with Hoopeston itself slightly outside the township (maybe why the FindaGrave listing is how it is).