Obituary for Betty Peterson Blasco

Blasco, a lyric writer and vocalist, died March 3, 2006. She wrote the words to ''My Happiness.'' It won the Song of the Year Award in 1948 for Cashbox Magazine. It has been recorded by numerous vocalists, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley, Pat Boone, Connie Francis, Frank Sinatra, etc. Blasco's husband, Louis O. Blasco, who was head of the publishing division of Jenkins Music Company, played with the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks and was known as ''Mr. Music of the Midwest.''