Her obit and picture is in today's Lake County (CA) Record Bee
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/record-bee/
National Obituaries
Fastest woman on earth dies at 85
The Villages, Fla (AP)
Betty Skelton Erde, an aviator and auto racing pioneer once called the fastest woman on earth, had died. She was 85.
etc.
(right under an ad for Chapel of the Lakes - advance payment plans)
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