Betty Greenleaf
KELLER, Texas — Betty Greenleaf, 70, formerly of Auburn, died Monday, Nov. 16, at her home in Keller, Texas, after a courageous battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease).

She was born in Vermont, and grew up in New Hampshire, before moving to Maine and marrying her beloved husband, Albert in 1964. She cared deeply for children, dedicating her life to raising foster children and running a day care in her Auburn home. In more than 35 years as foster parents, she and Albert cared for more than 150 children, loving each one as if they were their own.

She generously provided each child a loving home with hopes that they would successfully reunite with their birth parents. Her passion for foster children reached outside her home as she played an instrumental role in the greater Maine foster parent community. She served as president of the Tri-County Foster/Adoptive Parent Association, where she trained and provided ongoing education and support for new foster parents and social workers. Up until last summer, she continued to work for the betterment of foster children and families, working to help these children toward adoption and working with parents to learn parenting skills so they could be reunited with their children.

She was a strong person who refused to slow down, even after being diagnosed with ALS, continuing with their plan to move to Texas this past summer to live with her daughter’s family. She was most proud of her children and her grandchildren, always looking forward to the next time that she would see them.

She is survived by her husband, Albert Greenleaf; her children, LeAnn Greenleaf and her husband, Seth Goodall, Scott Greenleaf and his wife, Tina, Julie Jones (Greenleaf) and her husband, Richard, Joshua Greenleaf, and stepson, Michael Gaudet; and grandchildren Connor, Brady, Alison, Jacob, Brenna, Brianna and Brittany. She will be greatly missed by her family and the many families and children that she touched as foster children and in her day care.