Jane Beatty: Surviving With a
Smile
Jane
Beatty was a survivor. When her first marriage broke up,
she was thrust into the job market for the first time and
found work as a cocktail waitress in Toronto, where she
was raised. Then she learned computer skills and switched
careers, eventually becoming a technical supervisor at
Marsh & McLennan in New York.
Ms. Beatty, 53, faced another challenge more recently
when she was found to have breast cancer. By that time,
she had left Canada and moved to Belford, N.J., to marry
the retired police officer she had met on a blind date
while visiting a friend. The friend, Lorraine Greskow,
said Ms. Beatty remained upbeat, even after her
mastectomy. "She always had a smile on her face, even
through all that," she said.
In August, Jane Beatty and her husband, Bob, went to
Atlantic City to privately mark her fifth anniversary of
being cancer-free. She told her mother it was too early
to make a big fuss. "She said she wasn't going to
celebrate until she was clear for six years," said her
mother, Beth Chrystal.
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