10 January 1932 - 5 December 2019

Betty was born in 1932 at Mercy Hospital in New York City, the second of three children, to parents Anna McCarthy and Stephen Cronin, When she was four, the family moved to County Cork, where her father had bought a farm. There she attended the National School, learned Irish, and made her first holy communion.

In 1939, her Mother's health, and the world situation prompted the family to return to New York, where she attended St. Pius School in the Bronx and later St. Jean's in Manhattan. The family spent their summers happily at Rockaway Beach.

Bettty earned her bachelor's degree in history at College Misericordia, and her master's in guidance at Marquette and Fordham. She worked as a UN Guide for two years, and later taught seventh grade at Massapequa Junior High on Long Island.

She met Dan Moylan in Syracuse at the wedding of mutual friends, and married him a year later, moving to New England where Dan had taken a job with Raytheon. Three happy children were born in Hopkinton, and then another two in Sudbury, where they had built a new house. There she was active in the church and local politics, later working in advertising sales for the community newsletter.

She supported Dan in his fife and drum activities, proudly carrying the flag for the Sudbury Ancients, the Menotomy Minutemen, and the Bostonia Allarum Companie.

In 1997 the family moved to Brookline, enjoying available public transportation as well as walking access to shops, church, and health care.

She suffered a stroke in May, which affected her language capabilities, but recovered to near normalcy. However her heart was weakend and she succumbed to heart failure in December.