Irene H (LEUPP) Beeks - 2000

WASHBURN -- Irene H. Beeks, 90, Washburn, died July 17, 2000, in the Turtle Lake hospital. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at First Lutheran Church, Washburn, with the Rev. Bradley Brauer officiating. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery, Washburn.

Visitation will be from noon to 8 p.m. Thursday at Goetz Funeral Home, Washburn, and will continue at the church one hour before services.

Irene M. Leupp was born March 19, 1910, at Stanton, to Paul and Theresa (Dobler) Leupp. She grew up and attended school at Stanton. She worked for a time at the Mercer County Auditors Office at Stanton. She married Clifford H. Beeks on Nov. 4, 1934, at Stanton. They made their home in Washburn where she worked with her husband in building and operating the family business, Central Flying Service. Cliff died on March 14, 1980. She was involved in many community activities to include Cub Scouts den mother, Washburn High School Band Mothers, American Legion Auxiliary, Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, McLean County Historical Society, Lewis and Clark Bicentennial and District 8 Republican Party. She enjoyed hobbies of reading, gardening and raising flowers.

She is survived by four sons and daughters-in-law, Paul and Janet, Twin Falls, Idaho, William and Mary Ann, Washburn, Clifford and Bernita, Chillicothe, Ohio, and Don and Anita, Burkburnett, Texas; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two sisters and one brother-in-law, Ione Leupp, Hazen, and Alice and Jake Jantzen, Madison, Wis.; and one brother and sister-in-law, Adolph "Ike" and Mary Leupp, Stanton.