Townsend Star,' Townsend, MT
7 February 1946, page 1:
Funeral services for Miss Mary Belle Beatty, 77, pioneer woman of Winston who had made her home with Mrs. Kathryn Carroll in Townsend for the past four years where she died Sunday night there, were conducted from the Methodist church at 2:00 o'clock (in Townsend). Interment was yesterday afternoon made in the family lot in the Benton avenue cemetery in Helena beside the remains of her father and mother and step mother. The Rev. Ernest Mills officiated in the church and graveside.
Miss Beatty was the daughter of the late George Beatty and until his death a few years ago she was his constant companion, the two sharing the family home on Beaver creek near Winston, in which community they were both influential in building the local church and whose home was always the stopping place for the traveling ministry. She was born in the original homestead cabin January 9th, 1869 the youngest of three children. When seven years of age her mother passed away. She accompanied her father to his former home in New York and passed the next four years of her life there returning with the family to Montana again in about 1881, Mr. Beatty having remarried. She passed the residue of her life at the family home, reflecting a character of deep devotion and personal sacrifice to her family and church. She never married. While she had never been active in the society she was a true Montana pioneer and with her passing the ranks of the early day residents in this part of the state is again thinned.
A brother Wesley died in 1918 and a sister Mrs. Alice Fisher passed away in Helena in 1942. Their children are the surviving relatives and are Mrs. Marjorie Young, Mrs. Violet Wood, Milton and Raymond Beatty and Mrs. Annie Kenney. Mrs. Mildred Hadcock, Miss Alice Fisher and eleven grandnieces and grand nephews.
Contributor: RunninonMT (49509864)
7 February 1946, page 1:
Funeral services for Miss Mary Belle Beatty, 77, pioneer woman of Winston who had made her home with Mrs. Kathryn Carroll in Townsend for the past four years where she died Sunday night there, were conducted from the Methodist church at 2:00 o'clock (in Townsend). Interment was yesterday afternoon made in the family lot in the Benton avenue cemetery in Helena beside the remains of her father and mother and step mother. The Rev. Ernest Mills officiated in the church and graveside.
Miss Beatty was the daughter of the late George Beatty and until his death a few years ago she was his constant companion, the two sharing the family home on Beaver creek near Winston, in which community they were both influential in building the local church and whose home was always the stopping place for the traveling ministry. She was born in the original homestead cabin January 9th, 1869 the youngest of three children. When seven years of age her mother passed away. She accompanied her father to his former home in New York and passed the next four years of her life there returning with the family to Montana again in about 1881, Mr. Beatty having remarried. She passed the residue of her life at the family home, reflecting a character of deep devotion and personal sacrifice to her family and church. She never married. While she had never been active in the society she was a true Montana pioneer and with her passing the ranks of the early day residents in this part of the state is again thinned.
A brother Wesley died in 1918 and a sister Mrs. Alice Fisher passed away in Helena in 1942. Their children are the surviving relatives and are Mrs. Marjorie Young, Mrs. Violet Wood, Milton and Raymond Beatty and Mrs. Annie Kenney. Mrs. Mildred Hadcock, Miss Alice Fisher and eleven grandnieces and grand nephews.
Contributor: RunninonMT (49509864)
Townsend Star,' Townsend, MT
7 February 1946, page 1:
Funeral services for Miss Mary Belle Beatty, 77, pioneer woman of Winston who had made her home with Mrs. Kathryn Carroll in Townsend for the past four years where she died Sunday night there, were conducted from the Methodist church at 2:00 o'clock (in Townsend). Interment was yesterday afternoon made in the family lot in the Benton avenue cemetery in Helena beside the remains of her father and mother and step mother. The Rev. Ernest Mills officiated in the church and graveside.
Miss Beatty was the daughter of the late George Beatty and until his death a few years ago she was his constant companion, the two sharing the family home on Beaver creek near Winston, in which community they were both influential in building the local church and whose home was always the stopping place for the traveling ministry. She was born in the original homestead cabin January 9th, 1869 the youngest of three children. When seven years of age her mother passed away. She accompanied her father to his former home in New York and passed the next four years of her life there returning with the family to Montana again in about 1881, Mr. Beatty having remarried. She passed the residue of her life at the family home, reflecting a character of deep devotion and personal sacrifice to her family and church. She never married. While she had never been active in the society she was a true Montana pioneer and with her passing the ranks of the early day residents in this part of the state is again thinned.
A brother Wesley died in 1918 and a sister Mrs. Alice Fisher passed away in Helena in 1942. Their children are the surviving relatives and are Mrs. Marjorie Young, Mrs. Violet Wood, Milton and Raymond Beatty and Mrs. Annie Kenney. Mrs. Mildred Hadcock, Miss Alice Fisher and eleven grandnieces and grand nephews.
Contributor: RunninonMT (49509864)
7 February 1946, page 1:
Funeral services for Miss Mary Belle Beatty, 77, pioneer woman of Winston who had made her home with Mrs. Kathryn Carroll in Townsend for the past four years where she died Sunday night there, were conducted from the Methodist church at 2:00 o'clock (in Townsend). Interment was yesterday afternoon made in the family lot in the Benton avenue cemetery in Helena beside the remains of her father and mother and step mother. The Rev. Ernest Mills officiated in the church and graveside.
Miss Beatty was the daughter of the late George Beatty and until his death a few years ago she was his constant companion, the two sharing the family home on Beaver creek near Winston, in which community they were both influential in building the local church and whose home was always the stopping place for the traveling ministry. She was born in the original homestead cabin January 9th, 1869 the youngest of three children. When seven years of age her mother passed away. She accompanied her father to his former home in New York and passed the next four years of her life there returning with the family to Montana again in about 1881, Mr. Beatty having remarried. She passed the residue of her life at the family home, reflecting a character of deep devotion and personal sacrifice to her family and church. She never married. While she had never been active in the society she was a true Montana pioneer and with her passing the ranks of the early day residents in this part of the state is again thinned.
A brother Wesley died in 1918 and a sister Mrs. Alice Fisher passed away in Helena in 1942. Their children are the surviving relatives and are Mrs. Marjorie Young, Mrs. Violet Wood, Milton and Raymond Beatty and Mrs. Annie Kenney. Mrs. Mildred Hadcock, Miss Alice Fisher and eleven grandnieces and grand nephews.
Contributor: RunninonMT (49509864)
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