Richard Beik

BEIK, WALKER, COLSON, PINE, GOODLANDER

Posted By: Judy Kelley (volunteer) (email)
Date: 3/29/2009 at 15:05:19

Muscatine Journal, Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Graveside services: 10 a.m. Saturday, June 4, Grandview Cemetery, Grandview, with military rites conducted by the Wapello Veterans of Foreign Wars Glenn Allen Post 5166.

ST. GEORGE, Utay - Richard D. Beik, 85, St. George, died March 24, 2005, at his home.

The Rev. James Huston will officiate the services. The Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home, Wapello, in in charge of the local arrangements.

Mr. Beik was born Aug. 13, 1919, in Louisa County, the son of Dan and Calla Walker Beik. He married Betty J. Colson in 1948 in Eliza, Ill.

He grew up on a farm in the Grandview area and graduated from Grandview High School in 1936.

He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1940 at age 21. He served on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the USS William B. Preston during World War II. After serving six years he returned home and got married. He then owned and operated a gravel truck and was a rural U.S. mail carrier out of Wapello for 24 years. His retirement years were spent in Arizona and the last 14 years in St. George.

Survivors include a daughter, Linda S. Rosen of Lakeland, Fla.; a son, Danny J. Beik and wife Phyllis of Morning Sun; a sister, Nola Pine of Columbus City and Winfield; a grandson, Aaron R. Beik and wife Angela of Marion; great-granddaughters, MaKayla D. and Miranda R. Beik, both of Marion; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Keith and George Beik; and a sister, Nadine Goodlander.