Bette Jean Jarboe

Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend to all, Bette Jean
Jarboe, aka: JJ Jarboe was born on a farmstead in Bakersfield, California, on January
27, 1933, to William and Lillian Cooke. The family moved to Tracy, California and
purchased The Tracy Inn Hotel, where she helped the family run the hotel.  After
attending Tracy High School, she enrolled at Pacific University in Oregon.  After
College, she married Frank Charles Jarboe and had four children:  Bill, Julie, Jackie and
Mark.
JJ had a myriad of careers including legal secretary, day care center owner, co-owner
with her late husband of Korbus Glass Company in San Francisco and owner of B.
Jarboe Steno Service. She worked in the family businesses, while raising her children
and leading a very active life as a political activist, lobbyist, lecturer, journalist,
publisher, actress and model.
JJ was the founder and President of the 20,000 members Anti-women’s Liberation
League in the 1970s, a women’s rights organization supporting housewives and career
women, while protecting and strengthening the family structure and ensuring individual
rights in a free and changing society. She was actively involved in the California
Republican Party and was a former candidate for California State Senator of Contra
Costa County in 1980. JJ was also an editor for Tamalpais Times and Progress, a
syndicated columnist for Sun Papers, President of Family Love Foundation and
President for World Foundation for Health and Education. JJ was author-publisher for
the monthly Jarboe Legislative Letter with 20,000 subscribers nationwide, a non-profit
public service letter distributed to members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the
Senate, and Cabinet and subscribers. She was an active Chairperson for Employers
Committee to the U.S. Labor Department and Board Director of San Francisco’s 6 th St.
Improvement Association and Chairman of Save the Oakland Raiders Committee. She
had a strong passion for acting and modeling and acted on stage in San Francisco and
Mill Valley.
She is survived by her son, Mark and wife, Ivy, daughter Jackie and husband, Ken,
daughter-in-law Florence, her grandchildren, John and wife Cheyanne, Tiffany and
fiancé Aaron, Robbie, Rose, Desiree and husband, David, and Crystal and husband,
Eric, step grandson, Nikholas and her great grand-children, Bradley, Robbie, Thomas,
Micah, L, Sasha, Ember and Hazel.