Nansemond County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beaman, Katherine Prentis, 1948 

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Mrs. Beaman, Former Suffolk Woman, Dies 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Prentis Beaman, 81, former Suffolk 
resident who died yesterday morning at her home in Norfolk, will be held 
tomorrow at noon at Christ and St. Luke's Church. 

  Mrs. Beaman, whose civic, patriotic and religious accomplishments over a 
period of years gained wide recognition, died after a long illness. 

  The body will be taken from the H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartment on Thursday 
to Christ and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church for funeral services at noon.  The 
Rev. W. Taylor Willis, rector of the Church, will official.  Interment will 
be in Elwood [sic; Elmwood] Cemetery. 

  Mrs. Beaman, who was the daughter of the late Judge Robert Riddick Prentis, 
chief justice of the Virginia State Supreme Court, and Margaret Ann Whitehead, 
was born at the University of Virginia, where her father was proctor. 

  Her family moved to Suffolk when she was a child and she spent her early 
life there.  It was in Suffolk on October 19, 1887, that the was married to 
Nathaniel Beaman, who later became president of the National Bank of Commerce 
of Norfolk. 

  After coming to Norfolk. Mrs. Beaman took an active interest in community 
affairs.  She was elected to state and national offices by the Colonial Dames 
and by the Daughters of the American Revolution and was very active in the 
work of Christ Church. 

  She is survived by one daughter, two sons, and two grandsons. 


Katherine (PRENTIS; Mrs. Nathaniel) BEAMAN, formerly of Suffolk, 
b. 16 Aug 1866, Charlotteville, d. 1 Jun 1948, at home, Norfolk, 
interred in Elmwood Cemetery*, Norfolk, 3 Jun 1948, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 25, No. 50, Wed., June 2, 1948, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Cemeteries, Elmwood list: 
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/cemeteries/elmwood/elm-bea-bell-l.html 

D.Cert. 12664 (Norfolk #967) 

Her mother (1826 - 1910) is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - 
   Block D, Lot 33.  Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 

Her father (1818 - 1871) is buried in UVA Cemetery, Charlotteville. 
   (Find a Grave Memorial #83199871) 


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