Robert Michael Nesmith
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==Warren Audrey Nesmith== | ==Warren Audrey Nesmith== | ||
==Bette Clair McMurray== | ==Bette Clair McMurray== | ||
| + | Bette Clair McMurray was born [[Mar 23]], 1924 to Jesse McMurray and his wife Christine in Dallas, [[Texas]]. She dropped out of high school at age 17. | ||
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| + | When Bette was 19, she married Warren Nesmith, he was sent away to fight in World War II. While he was away Bette had a baby Michael. Sometime after Warren returned home, he and Bette divorced. | ||
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| + | Betty invented Liquid Paper, first called "Mistake Out" in 1956. Sales started slowly but picked up over the years. | ||
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| + | In 1962, Bette met and married Robert "Bob" Graham. In 1979 she sold her Liquid Paper company to the Gillette Corporation for $47.5 million plus royalties on every bottle until the year 2000. | ||
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| + | Bette died in 1980, age 56, leaving half her fortune to charity and the other half to her only child Michael. | ||
