first commercial pilot to land at Washington Dulles Airport. Against his mother’s insistence that he stay in Nogales to work on the family ranch after his graduation from Nogales High School in 1938, Bettwy joined the U.S. Army and then received a four-year military scholarship to the University of Arizona. In his senior year (1943–44), he met his wife-to-be, Janice Kathryn Kennerly (1925–2000) (Janice's brother is Robert Wilson Kennerly, well-known Arizona politician and community leader). His studies were interrupted by the war in Europe where he served as an armored car commander in a reconnaissance squadron during the push from Calais to Berchtesgaden, earning two battle stars and a Purple Heart. 1LT Bettwy participated in the liberation of the German concentration camp at Landsberg, and during the final three days of the war in Europe in May 1945, was officially "traded" to the German 38th SS Division Nibelungen as liaison officer to effect orderly surrenders. He was then dispatched to the Pacific Theater of Operations, but Japan surrendered in August 1945 when he was en route. Bettwy then completed college and law school on the G.I. Bill and got his start with the Phoenix firm of Page & Company, which specialized in public lands. Bettwy did not particularly enjoy the practice of law, but he loved Arizona and knew its history and every inch of its territory, having traveled it many times over with his father. On vacations with his own family, Bettwy could not resist detours along old highways and backroads, often unmaintained and treacherous. Bettwy and his wife Janice Kathryn Kennerly had three children, all of whom became lawyers: Andrew Wilson Bettwy (1944–2011), Samuel Bettwy of San Diego, California, and Maria Wolfinger Bettwy of Phoenix, Arizona. Bettwy died on December 1, 2004. Mexican ancestry Bettwy was a Mexican citizen by birth (doble nacionalid). His mother Mary Bettwy née Maria Jesus Laura Chenoweth Escalante was born in Mexico, and his grandmother, Laura Escalante Chenoweth (1875–1968), was a native of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Laura's father, Vicente Escalante, was Mayor of Hermosillo, and her brother-in-law (through her sister Amparo Escalante) was Ramón Corral who served in several public offices in Mexico, including the Governor of Sonora and Vice President of the Republic with President Porfirio Díaz from 1904 to 1911. Although Laura and her husband William Fitzwilliam Chenoweth lived in Nogales, Arizona, she insisted on giving birth to Andrew's mother Mary