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Bessie M. <I>Lansing</I> Beard

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Bessie M. Lansing Beard

Birth
Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois, USA
Death
23 Nov 1965 (aged 75)
Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Viola, Mercer County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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She died at approximately 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in a Galesburg hospital where she had been a patient the past eight months.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:00 p.m. in the Crummy Funeral Home, Viola.

Born May 7, 1890, in Aledo, the daughter of Frank and Lucy Crook Lansing. Mrs. Beard was educated in Aledo schools. She married Don W. Beard on March 13, 1910, in Rock Island.

She was an active member of the Viola Methodist Church.

Surviving are the husband, five sons, Chalmers, Keith, and Glen, all of Moline; Fred, East Moline, and Dwight, Rock Island; three daughters, Mrs. Elsie Munson, Viola; Mrs. Ray Kister, Galesburg, and Mrs. Leonard Lemon, Rock Island.

There are also ten great-grandchildren and 17 grandchildren. Other survivors include six sisters, Mrs. Minnie Plunkett, Viola, Mrs. Fred Beck, Sherrard, Mrs. Harry Lunn and Mrs. Joe Pitman, both of Reynolds, and Mrs. Boyd Dotson, East Moline.

She was preceded in death by the parents, one sister, two brothers, and a grandson.

(Times Record- Aledo, Illinois - November 24, 1965)
She died at approximately 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in a Galesburg hospital where she had been a patient the past eight months.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:00 p.m. in the Crummy Funeral Home, Viola.

Born May 7, 1890, in Aledo, the daughter of Frank and Lucy Crook Lansing. Mrs. Beard was educated in Aledo schools. She married Don W. Beard on March 13, 1910, in Rock Island.

She was an active member of the Viola Methodist Church.

Surviving are the husband, five sons, Chalmers, Keith, and Glen, all of Moline; Fred, East Moline, and Dwight, Rock Island; three daughters, Mrs. Elsie Munson, Viola; Mrs. Ray Kister, Galesburg, and Mrs. Leonard Lemon, Rock Island.

There are also ten great-grandchildren and 17 grandchildren. Other survivors include six sisters, Mrs. Minnie Plunkett, Viola, Mrs. Fred Beck, Sherrard, Mrs. Harry Lunn and Mrs. Joe Pitman, both of Reynolds, and Mrs. Boyd Dotson, East Moline.

She was preceded in death by the parents, one sister, two brothers, and a grandson.

(Times Record- Aledo, Illinois - November 24, 1965)


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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67013794/bessie_m-beard: accessed ), memorial page for Bessie M. Lansing Beard (7 May 1890–23 Nov 1965), Find a Grave Memorial ID 67013794, citing Viola Cemetery, Viola, Mercer County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by E. M. (contributor 47118572).