Early Life
Growing up in Eastchester, New York, Betty was the third of six children born to devout Roman Catholic parents, Marita and Frank Bisceglia. Her mother was Irish-American and her father was Italian; he founded a plastering firm with his brothers. Betty attended and later graduated from the College of Mount Saint Vincent, a small Catholic women's college in Riverdale, New York.
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