Betsy S. Ochs Obituary (1923 - 2016)

Betsy S. Ochs died on August 20, 2016, in Livingston, NJ. She was born in Newark, NJ, on August 17, 1923, the daughter of Jacob N. and Ida Spiro. She graduated from Weequahic High School in 1940 and subsequently earned a B.A. from Rutgers-Newark. In 1943 she married Lieutenant Herbert Ochs of the Army Air Corps, who was about to ship out to the China Burma India Theater. They settled in West Orange after the war and raised two children, William of Manhattan and Sara of Schenectady, who survive their parents. Mrs. Ochs was a homemaker for her early adult life, and in middle age started a business, The Second Time Around, a popular resale shop in the Valley District of West Orange. In her early 60s an artistic talent burst into bloom and Mrs. Ochs became an accomplished collage artist whose work was much admired and who exhibited at local art shows. There will be a private burial, and donations in her memory may be made to the Newark Museum, c/o Donna Patt, Development Department, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102 (www.newarkmuseum.org).