[2] She attended Venice High School, and was drawn to a course called "Radio Shop", having grown up under the traffic pattern of the Santa Monica airport.
[2] After graduating, Betty joined the Civil Aeronautics Administration (now the FAA) as an Aircraft Communicator, and worked at several airports in the western United States.
[3] She was also an instructor, dispatcher, bookkeeper and maintenance scheduler at Santa Monica Flyers flight and ground school as well as an office manager.
[3][4] After significant planning and several weather delays, in April 1963, she flew from Oakland, California, USA to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, to deliver the plane (a twin-engine Piper) to a buyer.
[3] She started the first leg of the epic flight on April 25, 1963 (with her troll doll, Dammit, as a lucky mascot) from Oakland, California and took over 17 hours to reach Honolulu.
[4] Betty Jean Verret met and married her husband, Charles Miller, known as Chuck, when she was stationed in Wendover working for the Civil Aeronautics Administration.