Bettyjane Heller expresses human emotion at its greatest level in Five of Us: A Handful, a real-life autobiography of loss, love, and hope.
Mrs. Heller, her two sisters, and her two brothers, unfortunately experienced the death of their young mother, followed then by heartbreaking turmoil after their father commits suicide. The children, although bonded by a strong love, are eventually separated; Betty and Shirley found their home at Bethany Orphan’s Home, their younger sister, Mae, was placed in foster care, and their brothers, Clark and Willard, were adopted to separate homes.
Struggling to overcome the great distance apart, death, and the medical concerns of Shirley’s son, Clark, this fabulous five do not concern themselves with material objects. They just realize how important family really is.
Mrs. Heller, her two sisters, and her two brothers, unfortunately experienced the death of their young mother, followed then by heartbreaking turmoil after their father commits suicide. The children, although bonded by a strong love, are eventually separated; Betty and Shirley found their home at Bethany Orphan’s Home, their younger sister, Mae, was placed in foster care, and their brothers, Clark and Willard, were adopted to separate homes.
Struggling to overcome the great distance apart, death, and the medical concerns of Shirley’s son, Clark, this fabulous five do not concern themselves with material objects. They just realize how important family really is.
