Elizabeth Jane Koeppen

Elizabeth Jane Koeppen, 93, died December 14, 2020, at St. Francis Hospice. She was born August 26, 1927, in Indianapolis, the daughter of Theodore and Ruth (Shea) Walker.
Betty attended high school in Indianapolis and graduated from Hunter College in New York then attended and graduated from the Wishard School of Nursing where she worked on the communicable disease ward. In the mid-sixties she was instrumental in helping establish the first Montessori school in Indianapolis. Later in her career she served as a psychiatric nurse at the IU Medical Center.
Betty was a force of nature, well ahead of her time in so many ways. She and her husband moved to Canada with three children in 1971 as a protest against the Vietnam War. All through her life, she was passionate about her family and politics, as well as a poet and avid reader. She was a leader who feared no one and always spoke her mind and, in the next sentence, would be recounting stories of her siblings and parents. Nothing was more important to Betty than a family gathering, and she and her husband Gerald hosted many over the years, though often the croquet got a bit competitive among her and her siblings, especially when the wickets accidentally moved.
She was predeceased by four brothers, Bud, Jim, Frank, and Mike, and by two sisters, Ruth and Judy. Surviving in addition to her husband, Gerald Koeppen, are her sons Dean Lozow and Charles Lozow and daughters Karen Cleary and Katherine Lozow.
A green burial was held with no public celebration of life, at this time, though Betty will always be remembered with love. Please share a memory of Betty at www.flannerbuchanan.com
Arrangements entrusted to Flanner Buchanan-Washington Park North