Ulrich Rische Beeson was born in September, 1893, on a farm near El Reno, Oklahoma, then known as Indian Territory. He was the son of Jessie Dentler and Clara (Rische) Beeson. He attended grade school in Rush Springs, Oklahoma, and high school in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Having finished high school he attended Thorp Springs Christian College, Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee, following which he enrolled in the University of Oklahoma, from which school he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He continued his work at the University of Oklahoma receiving a Masters degree and his next work was with the University of Colorado where he completed his requirements for the Ph.D. degree. In September, 1922, he married Miss Mary Lelia Beasley. To this union one son, Charles Rische Beeson, was born. Beeson began preaching in Oklahoma in 1916. Places he preached in local work were Waldo, Arkansas, and Nashville, Tennessee. He served as President of Cordell Christian College; taught at Harding College at Morrilton, Arkansas (now Harding University, Searcy, Arkansas); Santa Fe, New Mexico; Bakersfield, California; Little Rock, Arkansas (13th & Wolfe Street church); Bremerton, Washington; Omaha, Nebraska, and Petersburg, Virginia. States in which he held meetings were Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Nebraska, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Beeson served Northwestern State Teachers College at Alva, Oklahoma, as head of Rural Education Department, and was supervisor of 960 elementary schools of northwest Oklahoma. He served as minister of churches in Norman, Oklahoma; Seattle, Washington; Spokane, Washington; Little Rock, Arkansas; Nashville, Tennessee; Cordell, Oklahoma; Bakersfield, California; and he also did extensive evangelistic work. Besides enlarging his Guide Book to The Revelation, Beeson put into book form his Guide to a composite study of Romans, Galatians and Hebrews. He contributed to many religious as well as educational journals for years. In 1930 he became a member of the National Educational Association in recognition of his work. He was a charter member of Phi Delta Kappa, an educational honorary fraternity at Oklahoma University in Norman. Beeson served in many capacities in the home, in the church, in the school, wherever he was needed. The list of churches that he served across the nation indicates the strong influence for good that he had. Ulrich Beeson died March 10, 1983, at El Dorado, Arkansas. He was survived by his wife, Mary Lelia (she died one year later), by one son, Charles Rische Beeson, M.D. (Beeson had five brothers and one sister, all deceased.) Funeral service was under direction of Smith Funeral Home with Glen Parks officiating. Burial was in Waldo, Arkansas, with interment in Columbia Cemetery. -- In Memoriam, Gussie Lamber, 23-24.