Former Local Girl Is A Hall of Fame Bowler

by Jeff Olsen

Betty (née Stites) Siemers, a 1965 RHS graduate, can knock down the pins.

Truth be told, she still throws a wicked bowling ball that makes the pins rattle and fly.

So, where have you been all these years, Bowling Betty?

"I left Roseau pretty much right after high school. I went down to Worthington for a few years, Willmar for 10 years, and then to Oregon."

She resides in Central Point, which she described as a small town of barely 18,000 or so.

"I'm now widowed."

Her older sister, Jean Pederson, is also a very good bowler, an understandable fact since they hung out in bowling all...