The Idaho Statesman, 7/26/2002
Eldon Chester Beus, died Sunday at his residence in Boise. Funeral services for Eldon Chester Beus, 85, of Boise, Idaho, will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 27, 2002 at the Relyea Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow at Terrace Lawn Cemetery. Family visitation and private viewing will take place at the Relyea Funeral Chapel on Friday evening from 6:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., and on Saturday from 12:00 Noon until service time.
Mr. Beus was born in Soda Springs, Idaho on June 27, 1917 to Edmund Michael and Grace Campbell Beus. He graduated from Soda Springs High School in 1936 and received a degree in Forestry from the University of Idaho in 1940. In 1941, he was accepted into pilot training school with the Army Air Corps and joined the Air Transport Command after receiving his Pilot certification in 1942. He completed many missions during WWII flying B-24 bombers in the S. Pacific and C-46 and C-47 troop and material supply transports in N. Africa, and "the Hump" in the Himalayas. He completed his service in the Korean War with the 81st Fighter Wing and retired as a Major in 1959 from the US Air Force Reserves.
After leaving the service, he taught flying lessons in Soda Springs for a number of years and maintained his Idaho Airmen Registration until his death. Following a 29-year career in various positions with the US Bureau of Land Management at offices in Boise, Shoshone, and Salmon, he retired in Boise in 1976. He loved gardening, fishing, hunting, "puttering around the house", and countless other activities, particularly volunteering his time and talent to others. He was a Certified Advanced Master Gardener and "Eldon's Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden", located at the Morrison-Knudsen Nature Center, and was recently dedicated to him by the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game. He spent countless hours creating, planting, and maintaining this garden for the enjoyment of all.
He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a 57-year member of the Elks, a Century Member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation, the China-Burma-India Veterans Association, and Life Member of the Disabled American Veterans.
He was preceded in death by his four brothers, Ellis Kackley (his twin), Edmund C., Willis Stanley, and Jay Edward. Survivors include his wife, Verna, two sons by his previous marriage to Doris M. Florea, Michael J. Beus of Spokane, Wash., and Richard E. Beus of Salina, Kan.; two step-daughters, Joan Dietrich of Cupertino, Calif. and Kelly Linda B. Howard of Boise; two sisters, Marjorie Brewer of Idaho Falls, and Alice Wilson of Soda Springs; 5 grandchildren, six step grandchildren, and 4 great grandchildren.
Eldon Chester Beus, died Sunday at his residence in Boise. Funeral services for Eldon Chester Beus, 85, of Boise, Idaho, will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 27, 2002 at the Relyea Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow at Terrace Lawn Cemetery. Family visitation and private viewing will take place at the Relyea Funeral Chapel on Friday evening from 6:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., and on Saturday from 12:00 Noon until service time.
Mr. Beus was born in Soda Springs, Idaho on June 27, 1917 to Edmund Michael and Grace Campbell Beus. He graduated from Soda Springs High School in 1936 and received a degree in Forestry from the University of Idaho in 1940. In 1941, he was accepted into pilot training school with the Army Air Corps and joined the Air Transport Command after receiving his Pilot certification in 1942. He completed many missions during WWII flying B-24 bombers in the S. Pacific and C-46 and C-47 troop and material supply transports in N. Africa, and "the Hump" in the Himalayas. He completed his service in the Korean War with the 81st Fighter Wing and retired as a Major in 1959 from the US Air Force Reserves.
After leaving the service, he taught flying lessons in Soda Springs for a number of years and maintained his Idaho Airmen Registration until his death. Following a 29-year career in various positions with the US Bureau of Land Management at offices in Boise, Shoshone, and Salmon, he retired in Boise in 1976. He loved gardening, fishing, hunting, "puttering around the house", and countless other activities, particularly volunteering his time and talent to others. He was a Certified Advanced Master Gardener and "Eldon's Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden", located at the Morrison-Knudsen Nature Center, and was recently dedicated to him by the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game. He spent countless hours creating, planting, and maintaining this garden for the enjoyment of all.
He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a 57-year member of the Elks, a Century Member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation, the China-Burma-India Veterans Association, and Life Member of the Disabled American Veterans.
He was preceded in death by his four brothers, Ellis Kackley (his twin), Edmund C., Willis Stanley, and Jay Edward. Survivors include his wife, Verna, two sons by his previous marriage to Doris M. Florea, Michael J. Beus of Spokane, Wash., and Richard E. Beus of Salina, Kan.; two step-daughters, Joan Dietrich of Cupertino, Calif. and Kelly Linda B. Howard of Boise; two sisters, Marjorie Brewer of Idaho Falls, and Alice Wilson of Soda Springs; 5 grandchildren, six step grandchildren, and 4 great grandchildren.
The Idaho Statesman, 7/26/2002
Eldon Chester Beus, died Sunday at his residence in Boise. Funeral services for Eldon Chester Beus, 85, of Boise, Idaho, will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 27, 2002 at the Relyea Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow at Terrace Lawn Cemetery. Family visitation and private viewing will take place at the Relyea Funeral Chapel on Friday evening from 6:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., and on Saturday from 12:00 Noon until service time.
Mr. Beus was born in Soda Springs, Idaho on June 27, 1917 to Edmund Michael and Grace Campbell Beus. He graduated from Soda Springs High School in 1936 and received a degree in Forestry from the University of Idaho in 1940. In 1941, he was accepted into pilot training school with the Army Air Corps and joined the Air Transport Command after receiving his Pilot certification in 1942. He completed many missions during WWII flying B-24 bombers in the S. Pacific and C-46 and C-47 troop and material supply transports in N. Africa, and "the Hump" in the Himalayas. He completed his service in the Korean War with the 81st Fighter Wing and retired as a Major in 1959 from the US Air Force Reserves.
After leaving the service, he taught flying lessons in Soda Springs for a number of years and maintained his Idaho Airmen Registration until his death. Following a 29-year career in various positions with the US Bureau of Land Management at offices in Boise, Shoshone, and Salmon, he retired in Boise in 1976. He loved gardening, fishing, hunting, "puttering around the house", and countless other activities, particularly volunteering his time and talent to others. He was a Certified Advanced Master Gardener and "Eldon's Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden", located at the Morrison-Knudsen Nature Center, and was recently dedicated to him by the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game. He spent countless hours creating, planting, and maintaining this garden for the enjoyment of all.
He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a 57-year member of the Elks, a Century Member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation, the China-Burma-India Veterans Association, and Life Member of the Disabled American Veterans.
He was preceded in death by his four brothers, Ellis Kackley (his twin), Edmund C., Willis Stanley, and Jay Edward. Survivors include his wife, Verna, two sons by his previous marriage to Doris M. Florea, Michael J. Beus of Spokane, Wash., and Richard E. Beus of Salina, Kan.; two step-daughters, Joan Dietrich of Cupertino, Calif. and Kelly Linda B. Howard of Boise; two sisters, Marjorie Brewer of Idaho Falls, and Alice Wilson of Soda Springs; 5 grandchildren, six step grandchildren, and 4 great grandchildren.
Eldon Chester Beus, died Sunday at his residence in Boise. Funeral services for Eldon Chester Beus, 85, of Boise, Idaho, will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 27, 2002 at the Relyea Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow at Terrace Lawn Cemetery. Family visitation and private viewing will take place at the Relyea Funeral Chapel on Friday evening from 6:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., and on Saturday from 12:00 Noon until service time.
Mr. Beus was born in Soda Springs, Idaho on June 27, 1917 to Edmund Michael and Grace Campbell Beus. He graduated from Soda Springs High School in 1936 and received a degree in Forestry from the University of Idaho in 1940. In 1941, he was accepted into pilot training school with the Army Air Corps and joined the Air Transport Command after receiving his Pilot certification in 1942. He completed many missions during WWII flying B-24 bombers in the S. Pacific and C-46 and C-47 troop and material supply transports in N. Africa, and "the Hump" in the Himalayas. He completed his service in the Korean War with the 81st Fighter Wing and retired as a Major in 1959 from the US Air Force Reserves.
After leaving the service, he taught flying lessons in Soda Springs for a number of years and maintained his Idaho Airmen Registration until his death. Following a 29-year career in various positions with the US Bureau of Land Management at offices in Boise, Shoshone, and Salmon, he retired in Boise in 1976. He loved gardening, fishing, hunting, "puttering around the house", and countless other activities, particularly volunteering his time and talent to others. He was a Certified Advanced Master Gardener and "Eldon's Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden", located at the Morrison-Knudsen Nature Center, and was recently dedicated to him by the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game. He spent countless hours creating, planting, and maintaining this garden for the enjoyment of all.
He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a 57-year member of the Elks, a Century Member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation, the China-Burma-India Veterans Association, and Life Member of the Disabled American Veterans.
He was preceded in death by his four brothers, Ellis Kackley (his twin), Edmund C., Willis Stanley, and Jay Edward. Survivors include his wife, Verna, two sons by his previous marriage to Doris M. Florea, Michael J. Beus of Spokane, Wash., and Richard E. Beus of Salina, Kan.; two step-daughters, Joan Dietrich of Cupertino, Calif. and Kelly Linda B. Howard of Boise; two sisters, Marjorie Brewer of Idaho Falls, and Alice Wilson of Soda Springs; 5 grandchildren, six step grandchildren, and 4 great grandchildren.
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