Elizabeth (Betsy) Gordon Knight

Mrs. Knight attended Agnes Irwin School, Wynnewood, PA and was a graduate of Vassar College. She married Vernon Knight, M.D. on September 21, 1946. During her lifetime Mrs. Knight combined volunteer and professional activities. Her husband’s career meant moving several times and each time she served in both capacities.

From 1959 to 1963, in Washington, D.C., she was a Junior League docent at the Smithsonian Institution and in 1964 she joined the administration staff. She was loaned to the White House to the Office of Special Assistant to the President on the Arts.

In Houston Mrs. Knight was a sustaining member of the Junior League of Houston. She worked at the Bayou Bend Collection and the Institute for the Arts at Rice University.

She was acting director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in 1978-79. She also served on the Board of the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston.

Mrs. Knight wrote the first guide book to Houston in 1972. She also wrote art reviews for the Houston Post. In 1975, her article in Antiques Magazine on the historic Magoffin House in El Paso served to save it from destruction. Since that time her freelance writing covered many fields of interest, particularly the period of the American Revolution.

She is preceded in death by her daughter, Caroline Knight Ross. Survived by her husband, Vernon Knight, M.D.; sons, Robert Hunter Knight, James Gordon Knight, M.D. and John Vernon Knight. Also surviving are eight grandchildren.

Family services will be private in Glenwood Cemetery.

For those desiring, memorial contributions may be directed to the USO.