Background
Desjardins, Betty Lee was born on October 2, 1928 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Robert Lester and Lizzie Lee Gray.
Desjardins, Betty Lee was born on October 2, 1928 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Robert Lester and Lizzie Lee Gray.
Bachelor of Science, Winthrop University, Rockhill, South Carolina, 1948.
Research assistant Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Lab, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1948—1949. Histologist Cancer Research and Cancer Control Laboratory, New England Medical Center, Boston, 1949—1951. President Health Care Center With Dementsia, since 2007.
President Virginia Mountain Housing, Blacksburg, 1986—1988. Director March of Dimes, 1958. President League of Women Voters, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1982.
Leader Girl Scouts, 1957—1960.
Married Richard Fernand Desjardins, June 18, 1949. Children: Cheryl Lee Greene, David, Frances Ann Pulsifer, James Robert.