BETTE NESMITH GRAHAM

Savannah and Kaitlyn Mrs. DeCook - grade 3

EARLY LIFE

• Bette was born on March 23, 1924.

• Bette was born in Dallas Texas.

• She was raised in San Antonio, Texas.

• Bette dropped out of high school at the age of 17.

• She married and moved back to Dallas

ABOUT BETTE'S FAMILY

• Bette had one child named Michael Nesmith.

• Bette became the famous mother of her musician son Michael, who played with the band “The Monkeys”.

ABOUT BETTE'S JOB

• Bette was good at her work and Bette rose through the ranks at Texas bank and trust anile became executive security to the chairman of the board by 1951.

• She typed a lot and made mistakes.

• She made a white paint that would cover her mistakes.

WHAT BETTE INVENTED

• Bette invented liquid paper in 1956.

• She called it Mistake out

• Bette’s started a company and it grew to a million dollar business.

• By 1979 Bette was selling around 25 million bottles a year.

INTERESTING DETAILS

• She started company out of her house

• In 1975 Bette moved operations to a three thousand five hundred- sq. ft metal shed in her backyard.

• Bette sold the company to Gillette corporation in 1979 for 47 million.

WHAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF BETTE HAD NOT LIVED

• There would not be any liquid paper if Bette was not alive.

• If there was no liquid paper and if you make a mistake on a piece of paper you would have to start all over.

WHEN BETTE DIED

• Bette died on May 12, 1980.

• Bette died in Richardson Texas.

RESOURCES

• World Book Kids

• Wikipedia

• Images: About.com, Women-inventors.com