Beth Holloway | |
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Born |
Elizabeth Ann Reynolds c. 1961 (age 55–56) Pine Bluff, Arkansas |
Residence | Birmingham, Alabama |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Beth Twitty Beth Holloway-Twitty |
Alma mater |
Arkansas State University University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
Occupation |
Speech pathologist Motivational speaker |
Spouse(s) | David Edward "Dave" Holloway (divorced) George "Jug" Twitty (divorced) |
Children |
Natalee Holloway Matthew Holloway |
Parent(s) | Paul Mundell Reynolds Ann Nichols |
Elizabeth Ann "Beth" Holloway (née Reynolds; born c. 1961), later named Beth Twitty and Beth Holloway-Twitty, is an American speech pathologist and motivational speaker who became widely known after her teenage daughter, Natalee, who went missing during a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005.
Following her daughter's disappearance, Twitty became a speaker on the topic of personal safety. She founded the International Safe Travels Foundation to educate the public to help them travel more safely, and the Natalee Holloway Resource Center to aid families of missing persons.
Elizabeth Ann Reynolds was born and raised in the town of Pine Bluff, Arkansas to parents Ann (née Nichols) and Paul Mundell Reynolds. She later lived and worked in Tennessee. She received her bachelor's degree in speech pathology with a minor in special education from University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She continued her studies at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, where she received a master's degree in speech pathology.
Beth Reynolds married college classmate David Holloway and settled in Jackson, Mississippi. They had a daughter Natalee Ann, who was born in Clinton, Mississippi in 1986, and a younger son Matthew. After the couple divorced in 1993, she raised her two children on her own. In 2000, Holloway married George "Jug" Twitty, an Alabama businessman, and moved with her children to Mountain Brook, Alabama. On December 29, 2006, Jug Twitty began divorce proceedings, stating the two have "such a complete incompatibility of temperament that the parties can no longer live together." Beth now lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her son Matthew.