Long-time Sweet Home resident Betty Jean Bascom, 86, died May 22, 2010.
She was born April 8, 1924 in Redfield, S.D., to Menzo and Nona (Mannings) Akin. She began her 58 years of marriage to Fred Stiner Bascom in Redfield, S.D.
They moved to the Northwest at the start of World War II and were both employed for a time in the Portland shipyards, building naval vessels. They settled in Sweet Home in 1944, where…