Obit of Beasley, Bertha Ellen Howell - Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Howard Grisso   16 Oct 2005
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::Eagle Point National Cemetery--Eagle Point OR

Surnames: BEASLEY, HOWELL, ROMINES, Green

Originally posted at:
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From the Medford (OR) Mail Tribune 07-26-2005 at www.mailtribune.com

A celebration of the life of Bertha Ellen Beasley will be held on Sunday,
July 31, 2005 at 3366 Antelope Road, White City. Family and Friends are
invited to a walk through Bertha's home to view her life in pictures
anytime throughout the day. A time for sharing and a barbeque will begin
at 5 p.m.

Bertha, 84, passed away peacefully on Monday, July 18, 2005. She died from
complications of Congestive Heart Failure. As she wished, she was at home
with family by her side right till the end. She will be buried at the
Eagle Point National Cemetery by her husband.

Bertha Ellen Howell was born in Antlers, Oklahoma on March 4, 1921 to
Clarence Bird Howell and Nannie Ellen Romines.

On June 24,1939 in Antlers, she married T. J. (Thomas Jasper) Beasley.
They had one son, Thomas Andrew (Andy) Beasley.

In the early years they made their home in and around the Antlers area.
Later they moved to Albany, Oregon. No work forced them into California
where they both found work. He as a carpenter and she as a Nurses
Assistant for Capaleties Nursing Home in Mountain View, California where
she worked for eight to ten years. She left the work force to raise Terry,
her oldest granddaughter. For the remainder of her life she remained a
homemaker. She enjoyed doing embroidery work and tending to her animals.
Her one true passion was collecting nicknacks and salt and pepper shakers.
She had gathered more than 5000 sets before her death. Amazingly, Bertha
accomplished all this never having any formal education. She never learned
to read or write.

She is survived by one brother, J.C.; her son, Andy; grandchildren, Terry
Beasley, Angela Green, Michael Beasley, and Glen Beasley; great-
grandchildren Jeff Axtell, Andrew Scott Beasley, KC King, Brittany and
Tyler Green, Alexis, Ashur, Zane, and Aiden Beasley; great-great-
grandchildren J.C. Axtell, Brianna and Angela Beasley; also included are
four generations of nieces and nephews.

She will be loved and missed by all. She was preceded in death by her
parents, Clarence and Nannie, her husband T.J., her younger sister Edeth,
and her brother Denton.
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