- I was born on Thanksgiving, November 25, 1936, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
- Graduated Brooklyn College with a degree in creative writing
- Short period of per diem substitute teaching "English as a Second Language" in Brooklyn elementary schools
- Met David Betancourt dancing at the Palladium Ballroom in New York City in 1959
- My beautiful green-eyed son Peter was born September 24, 1963
- Peter relocates to Maui, Hawaii
- Wrote first poem "Tenement Blues" at age 10 and hundreds more to the present time which have been praised by an Emily Dickinson scholar, Richard Sewell, as quite perfect!
- Developed my own business Poetry by Jean Betancourt, Inc. - to market my hat and handbag designs
- For the last 30 years to the present I created a large body of mixed-media assemblages