Dougherty County GaArchives Obituaries.....Beck, Olivia DuVall November 26, 2005
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Kimbrell Stern - 2005
Date of Birth: July 16, 1919  
Date of Death: November 26, 2005  

The graveside funeral service for Mrs. John J. Beck (Olivia) of 3607 Old Dawson 
Road, Albany, who passed away of cancer on November 26, 2005 will be held at 11 
AM Tuesday, November 28, 2005 at the Morgan Baptist Church cemetery in Morgan, 
GA. The service will be conducted by her pastor, Reverend Tony Haefs of 
Gillionville Baptist Church, Albany, Georgia. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, John Jacques Beck in 1992. A native 
of Atlanta, Mrs. Beck attended public schools and graduated from Girls High. 
After graduating from Marjorie Webster Junior College in Washington, D.C., the 
Parson’s School of Design, New York City and New York University, she taught 
art in New York City, Girls High in Atlanta and Albany High School. Catherine 
Olivia DuVall Beck was the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Ward Beecher 
DuVall of Atlanta. She married John Jacques Beck of Morgan, Georgia in 1942 
when Mr. Beck was an officer in the United States Army Air Corps and moved to 
Albany in 1946. She and John were among the fifty members who founded Sherwood 
Baptist Church. There she taught Sunday School, worker with the Women’s 
Missionary Society, and was responsible for many receptions and decorations. 
She became a member of Gillionville Baptist Church in 2001. She was a member 
and past President of the Palmyra Heights Garden Club, the Albany Charity 
League, where she held many offices, a lifetime member of the Albany Museum of 
Art and served as a Gray Lady at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital for many 
years. Long known for her vivacity and creativity, in her later life, she 
became the owner and designer of Beckridge Florist in 1980 where she designed 
silk flower arrangements for private and commercial customers. 

She is survived by her son, Jay Beck of Atlanta, two sisters-in-law, Marcelle 
C. Beck of Albany and Kay D. Nichols of Jupiter, Florida, two nieces, five 
nephews, great nieces, great nephews and one great, great niece as well as many 
loved cousins and very close friends. Visitation with the family will be from 5 
to 7 PM Monday at Kimbrell-Stern. Those desiring may make memorials to the 
Gillionville Baptist Church, 4614 Gillionville Road, Albany, GA, 31721. 

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