Montgomery County IL Archives Obituaries.....Beasley, Randall L. December 30, 1998
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Randall Beasley, b-15 Jul 1925, d-30 Dec 1998
 
Beasley, Randall L.
 
Memorial service for Randall Lionel Beasley, formerly of the Witt area, will 
be held Wednesday afternoon in the First United Methodist Church of Mattoon. 
The family suggests memorials be directed to the First United Methodist Church 
of Mattoon, American Heart Association or the Randall and Virginia Beasley 
Scholarship Endowment at Lake Land College. 
 
Mr. Beasley, of Mattoon, died at 9:47 p.m. Wednesday, December 30, 1998, in 
St. John's Hospital, Springfield. He was 73 years old on July 15, and a Navy 
veteran of World War II. He was an engineer with Coles Moultrie Electric 
Cooperative from 1948 until his retirement in 1988. He was a founding manager 
of the Illinois Farm Electrification Council, member and past president of 
Illinois Electrical Inspectors, an incorporator of Clear Water Service 
Corporation, and an Illinois Class A water plant operator. 
 
He attended schools in Irving and Witt, graduating from Witt High School, 
attended Blackburn College and the University of Illinois, graduating from the 
U. of I. in 1948 with a bachelor of science degree in agricultural 
engineering. He also worked for the U. of I. and the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture to pay his way through school. He was active in many organizations 
in the Mattoon area, including Masonic Lodge 206 A.F.& A.M., director of the 
United Way for 15 years, and a former member of the Charleston Mattoon Chamber 
of Commerce. 
 
He was a son of Arthur E. and Mildred Mitchell Beasley. When he was 2 1/2 
years old, his mother died and his father, in 1932, married a young widow 
named Collins (widow of Welby G. Collins, nee Bessie Groves). She had four 
children, each only a few months younger than the Beasley children. 
 
Surviving are his wife, the former Virginia G. Rackett, whom he married June 
4, 1947, in East Marion, N.Y.; children, Beth Ann Watson of rural Mattoon, Sue 
Ellyn Meyer of Lerna, Nancy Jeanne Levin of Chesterfield, Mo.; step brothers, 
Raymond and Arthur Beasley of Owensville, Mo., Ray D. Collins of Edwardsville; 
sister, Allegretha Harrelson of Bunnlevel, N.C.; four grandchildren, one step 
grandchild and two great grandchildren.


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