CHARLES LESFORD BECK
CHARLIE BECK OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI, WAS BORN OCTOBER 11, 1925, IN IRONDALE, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE CHARLES H. AND LILLIAN (CHAPPELL) BECK. CHARLIE DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT WASHINGTON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ON MARCH 13, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SEVENTY-THREE YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND TWO DAYS.
CHARLIE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ROSALIE BLACK ON MARCH 18, 1946, IN ELVINS, MISSOURI, AND TO THIS UNION TWO CHILDREN WERE BORN.
CHARLIE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, ROSALIE BECK OF IRONDALE, ONE SON TERRY BECK AND WIFE DONNA OF IRONDALE, ONE DAUGHTER, RITA BECK OF IRONDALE, SIX GRANDCHILDREN, ELAINE PULLIAM AND HUSBAND TOM OF IRONDALE, TRACI CARLYON AND HUSBAND JIMMY OF LEADWOOD, JOHNATHAN KETCHERSIDE AND WIFE AMY OF PARK HILLS, CHARLES BECK AND WIFE CARLA OF IRONDALE, AMBER NEWBERRY AND HUSBAND CRAIG OF DESLOGE, AARON BECK OF FORT HOOD, TEXAS, TWELVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, FOUR SISTERS, EDNA RICE OF ST. LOUIS, VIRGINIA HATRIDGE OF IRONDALE, HELEN SPIER OF IRONDALE, BETTY JEAN DENTON OF DESLOGE, ONE BROTHER-IN-LAW, ZELLIE FERRELL OF IRONDALE AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SISTER, EVELYN FERRELL.
PRIOR TO CHARLIE'S RETIREMENT HE HAD BEEN EMPLOYED FOR SEVERAL YEARS WITH MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD AND RETIRED IN 1977 FROM THE ST. JOE LEADMINES. CHARLIE ENJOYED WORKING WITH THE BIG RIVER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION AND WAS VERY ACTIVE IN ITS' ACTIVITIES. CHARLIE ENJOYED ALL THE GIFTS OF MOTHER NATURE AND WAS VERY ACTIVE IN TRAPPING, HUNTING AND FISHING. AMONG HIS MANY HOBBIES HE ENJOYED COIN COLLECTING AND WAS AN AVID PICTURE HISTORIAN OF THE TOWN OF IRONDALE.
VISITATION WAS HELD MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1999, FROM 3:30 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SO FUNERAL HOME IN IRONDALE.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1999, AT 11:00 A.M. AT THE GUM & SON CHAPEL WITH REVEREND BRUCE TORRENCE OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN BIG RIVER CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, JOHNATHAN KETCHERSIDE, JIM CARLYON, ANDY BECK, AARON BECK, TOM PULLIAM, CRAIG NEWBERRY, DONALD FERRELL AND JIM SPIER.