obit, Port Orchard, Washington, April 13, 2004
Fannie Frances Lyon Beck, 93, a resident of the Port Orchard/Bremerton area for 49 years, died Dec. 27, 1999. She was born March 16, 1906, in Unadilla, Neb., to Noah and Minnie Lyon. She married Harold Beck on May 15, 1924, in Gregory County, S.D. After a number of years farming with her husband in the Lynch, Neb. area, the family moved to Havelock and Bethany, Neb., where at the beginning of World War II, Mrs. Beck worked at the Mead, Neb., ordnance plant, helping build bombs in support of the war effort. In 1943, the family moved to Vancouver, Wash., where she trained as a welder in the construction of ships for the Navy. She later worked as a welder at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. She was a member of Curley Creek Grange 567, the WWI Association, the American Legion Unit 030 and the United Methodist Church.
Survivors include three sons, Albert of Rochester, Melvin of Oak Harbor, and Ronald of Palm Bay, Fla.; one daughter, Hazel Grosche of Hillsboro, Oregon, and 15 grandchildren. Visitation is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Pendleton-Gilchrist Funeral Home at Rill Chapel, with a graveside service following at 2 p.m. at Sunset Lane Cemetery in Port Orchard.
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Fannie Frances Lyon Beck, 93, a resident of the Port Orchard/Bremerton area for 49 years, died Dec. 27, 1999. She was born March 16, 1906, in Unadilla, Neb., to Noah and Minnie Lyon. She married Harold Beck on May 15, 1924, in Gregory County, S.D. After a number of years farming with her husband in the Lynch, Neb. area, the family moved to Havelock and Bethany, Neb., where at the beginning of World War II, Mrs. Beck worked at the Mead, Neb., ordnance plant, helping build bombs in support of the war effort. In 1943, the family moved to Vancouver, Wash., where she trained as a welder in the construction of ships for the Navy. She later worked as a welder at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. She was a member of Curley Creek Grange 567, the WWI Association, the American Legion Unit 030 and the United Methodist Church.
Survivors include three sons, Albert of Rochester, Melvin of Oak Harbor, and Ronald of Palm Bay, Fla.; one daughter, Hazel Grosche of Hillsboro, Oregon, and 15 grandchildren. Visitation is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Pendleton-Gilchrist Funeral Home at Rill Chapel, with a graveside service following at 2 p.m. at Sunset Lane Cemetery in Port Orchard.
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obit, Port Orchard, Washington, April 13, 2004
Fannie Frances Lyon Beck, 93, a resident of the Port Orchard/Bremerton area for 49 years, died Dec. 27, 1999. She was born March 16, 1906, in Unadilla, Neb., to Noah and Minnie Lyon. She married Harold Beck on May 15, 1924, in Gregory County, S.D. After a number of years farming with her husband in the Lynch, Neb. area, the family moved to Havelock and Bethany, Neb., where at the beginning of World War II, Mrs. Beck worked at the Mead, Neb., ordnance plant, helping build bombs in support of the war effort. In 1943, the family moved to Vancouver, Wash., where she trained as a welder in the construction of ships for the Navy. She later worked as a welder at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. She was a member of Curley Creek Grange 567, the WWI Association, the American Legion Unit 030 and the United Methodist Church.
Survivors include three sons, Albert of Rochester, Melvin of Oak Harbor, and Ronald of Palm Bay, Fla.; one daughter, Hazel Grosche of Hillsboro, Oregon, and 15 grandchildren. Visitation is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Pendleton-Gilchrist Funeral Home at Rill Chapel, with a graveside service following at 2 p.m. at Sunset Lane Cemetery in Port Orchard.
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Fannie Frances Lyon Beck, 93, a resident of the Port Orchard/Bremerton area for 49 years, died Dec. 27, 1999. She was born March 16, 1906, in Unadilla, Neb., to Noah and Minnie Lyon. She married Harold Beck on May 15, 1924, in Gregory County, S.D. After a number of years farming with her husband in the Lynch, Neb. area, the family moved to Havelock and Bethany, Neb., where at the beginning of World War II, Mrs. Beck worked at the Mead, Neb., ordnance plant, helping build bombs in support of the war effort. In 1943, the family moved to Vancouver, Wash., where she trained as a welder in the construction of ships for the Navy. She later worked as a welder at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. She was a member of Curley Creek Grange 567, the WWI Association, the American Legion Unit 030 and the United Methodist Church.
Survivors include three sons, Albert of Rochester, Melvin of Oak Harbor, and Ronald of Palm Bay, Fla.; one daughter, Hazel Grosche of Hillsboro, Oregon, and 15 grandchildren. Visitation is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Pendleton-Gilchrist Funeral Home at Rill Chapel, with a graveside service following at 2 p.m. at Sunset Lane Cemetery in Port Orchard.
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