{"id":5988,"date":"2021-06-30T08:25:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=5988"},"modified":"2021-06-30T08:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:25:48","slug":"passing-of-betty-juhan-watt-former-child-internee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=5988","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Betty Juhan Watt, former child internee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com\/obits\/2021\/06\/25\/elizabeth-betty-watt\/\">Santa Barbara Independent<\/a><\/em> recently announced the passing of Elizabeth &#8220;Betty&#8221; Watt.\u00a0 Elizabeth &#8220;Betty&#8221; Juhan was born in Baguio in 1941, just before the War.\u00a0 Betty and her family were interned in Baguio, and later at Old Bilibid Prison.\u00a0 After liberation, Betty&#8217;s family, including her new brother, Herman, who was born on 29 March 1945, was repatriated on the S.S. Cape Mears, arriving in San Francisco, California, on 12 May 1945.\u00a0 The Juhan family is mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=979\">Rob Colquhoun&#8217;s account of the voyage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-attachment-id=\"5993\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?attachment_id=5993#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Juhan-Elizabeth-Betty-wedding-photo.jpg?fit=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1624614434&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Juhan-Elizabeth-Betty-wedding-photo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Juhan-Elizabeth-Betty-wedding-photo.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Juhan-Elizabeth-Betty-wedding-photo.jpg?fit=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Juhan-Elizabeth-Betty-wedding-photo.jpg?resize=600%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Juhan-Elizabeth-Betty-wedding-photo.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philippineinternment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Juhan-Elizabeth-Betty-wedding-photo.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>After graduating from Venice High School, in California, Betty married her high school sweetheart,\u00a0Conrad C. Watt Jr., in 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betty died in Santa Barbara, California, on 20 June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com\/obits\/2021\/06\/25\/elizabeth-betty-watt\/\">Link to the full article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Santa Barbara Independent recently announced the passing of Elizabeth &#8220;Betty&#8221; Watt.\u00a0 Elizabeth &#8220;Betty&#8221; Juhan was born in Baguio in 1941, just before the War.\u00a0 Betty and her family were interned in Baguio, and later at Old Bilibid Prison.\u00a0 After liberation, Betty&#8217;s family, including her new brother, Herman, who was born on 29 March 1945, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,24,25],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RCb-1yA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5988"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5988"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=5988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}