Ellis County Texas Archives Photo Person.....Beck, Hester M. (as A Child With Her Toys, Photograph 1) 1920s ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: T. Bradford Willis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007638 September 30, 2012, 11:24 pm Source: Hester M. Beck Willis Name: Hester M. (as A Child With Her Toys, Photograph 1) Beck Date Of Photograph: 1920s Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/ellis/photos/beck9976nph.jpg Image file size: 102.7 Kb Hester M. Beck was born February 1, 1924 in Waco, Texas, the only child of the late Roy Elmer Beck and Elizabeth "Bessie" Lethella Howell Beck. She attended the Waco Public Schools, graduating from Waco High School in 1941, and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Baylor University. She was a teacher in the La Vega, Dallas and Waco School Districts before her marriage to John Todd Willis Jr. on Feb. 2, 1952, at Austin Avenue Methodist Church of Waco. A member of Austin Avenue Methodist Church, she served on the Board of Stewards and the Administrative Board, and was a life member of the United Methodist Women. For many years she was a teacher in the Primary I Department and the Friendship Class. Active in the community, she was a life member of the Friends of the Waco Public Library and a member of the Sterling C. Robertson Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the Henry Downs Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Chapter B.F. of the P.E.O. Sisterhood and the Mary Milam Garden Club. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/ellis/photos/beck9976nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/txfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb