Beth Holloway
mother of Natalee Holloway and missing persons advocate
Elizabeth Ann Holloway (née Reynolds; born 1960) is an American speech pathologist and motivational speaker. She became widely known in the international media after her teenage daughter, Natalee, disappeared while going on a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. Subsequently, Holloway 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.
Background
Early life and education
Holloway was born Elizabeth Ann Reynolds and raised in 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 the 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.
Personal life
Beth Reynolds married college classmate Dave Holloway and settled in Clinton, Mississippi. They had a daughter Natalee Ann, who was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1986, and a younger son Matthew.
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