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American motivational speaker
Elizabeth Catherine “Beth” Usher (29 June 1979 – 29 November 2024) was an American motivational speaker, writer and artist.
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Elizabeth Catherine Usher (1979-06-29)June 29, 1979 |
| Died | November 29, 2024(2024-11-29) (aged 45)
Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. |
Biography
Elizabeth Catherine Usher was born to Brian J. Usher, Sr. and Kathleen “Kathy” McNamara Usher on June 29, 1979 in Stamford, Connecticut. She had an older brother, Brian. Usher’s parents both worked for the University of Connecticut.[1]
Usher was diagnosed with Rasmussen’s encephalitis at the age of 6, which caused frequent seizures- an average of 100 per day. She suffered from her first grand mal seizure after falling from a seesaw during her third week of kindergarten. Her seizures were calmed by watching episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and Usher eventually befriended the titular host and appeared on an episode of the show. The two remained friends until Rogers’ death in 2003. On February 4, 1987, at the age of 7, Usher underwent a 12-hour hemispherectomy to remove the left hemisphere of her brain. She was only the sixth person in the nation to undergo the procedure. The surgery was performed by Ben Carson at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland. The chapter “Little Beth” in Carson’s 1990 autobiography Gifted Hands is devoted to Usher. After her surgery, Usher fell into a month-long coma and was visited by Rogers while asleep.[2][3][4][5]
As a keynote speaker, she spoke at events for the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, of which she was also a member of the Board of Directors, and the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians.[2][3] At the time of her death, she resided between Stamford, Connecticut and Siesta Key, Florida. Through the non-profit organization Canine Companions for Independence she had a service dog, Gromit.[4]
Usher died on November 29, 2024 at the Stamford Hospital in Stamford, at the age of 45.[1]
