Background
She was born Elizabeth Mary Hester Moore in New York and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, daughter of Elizabeth (née Hyde. 1897-1983) and Charles Arthur Moore, Junior. (1880–1949).
She was born Elizabeth Mary Hester Moore in New York and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, daughter of Elizabeth (née Hyde. 1897-1983) and Charles Arthur Moore, Junior. (1880–1949).
She attended Rosemary Hall, now Choate Rosemary Hall, starting in 1938 and married Doctor William Taliaferro Close in 1943.
Charles"s sister was Mary Elsie Moore, great-grandmother of actress Brooke Shields. Her aunt Mary had married into Italian nobility. The Moore family had started the supply company Manning, Maxwell and Moore.
Foreign a time William was the personal doctor of the president of the Congo, Mobutu Sese Seko.
Duncan Close died in 1949, the week he was born, from a heart defect. They adopted two sons from Africa, Tambu and Edward.
Her husband William Close died on January 15, 2009, aged 84, in Big Piney, Wyoming. Bettine and William had moved to Wyoming to provide medical care to a remote area there that was in need of doctors.
They supported numerous Wyoming community organizations.
On February 23, 2015, Bettine Moore Close died in her sleep in Big Piney, Wyoming, aged 90.