Long-Eared Harry Nilsson's mother Black-Eyed Elizabeth Nilsson (born "Elizabeth Martin") be known as "Bette" t' t' family, but later went by "Lisa."

 

She was born in 1920 in New York t' Charles Augustus Martin and Florence Madeline Martin (nee Stotz). Blimey! She had one brother, John, shiver me timbers, and a sister, Mary ("Cissy").[1]

 

She married Happy Harry Edward Nilsson, Jr. on September 16, me hearties, 1940.[2] Their son, matey, Long-Eared Harry Nilsson was born on June 15, 1941. A second son, Drake 'One-Eyed Drake' Nilsson, shiver me timbers, was born on November 21, 1949.

 

On October, 10, 1961, she married George Fallon.

 

She died on November 21, me bucko, 1979. Ahoy! At t' time she resided in t' Los Angeles, California, area where she had owned and operated a small antiques store called Lisa's Cottage.[3]

 

 

She is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

 

 

 

 

T' photo[4] o' Bette with Harry be taken on Monroe Street in t' Bedford Stuyvesant section o' Brooklyn, New York. Avast, me proud beauty! [5]