Betty Davison

Betty Davison (nee Elizabeth Mary Gertrude Young) was a Canadian artist born in Ottawa in 1909. She died in 2000.
Davison married a fellow actor, Richard (Dick) Lewis in 1939. Dick was a widower with four children who was 26 years her senior. Two years later they had twin daughters, Mary and Martha. He died a year after their birth, and in order to support her family Davison took portrait commissions as well as eventually returning to a paying job as a secretary at the Department of External Affairs.
In 1952 she married the architect Arthur Davison, a fellow actor at the Ottawa Little Theatre.