Robert O. Beatty, 71,
of Elkhart died Saturday, Dec. 21, 2002, at 1:15 p.m. at Vonderlieth
Living Center, Mount Pulaski.
Visitation will be
from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in
Mount Pulaski.
His funeral will be at
10 a.m. Friday at First United Methodist Church of Mount Pulaski,
with the Rev. Carol Andricks officiating.
Burial, with military
rites, will be in Elkhart Cemetery.
Mr. Beatty retired
from Capitol Machinery Co. in Springfield, where he was general
manager of the agriculture machinery division.
He was a U.S. Navy
veteran of the Korean War.
He was born May 5,
1931, in Olney to Charles L. and Lucille Kline Beatty. He married
Nathalie Spence in 1957, and she died in 1985. He married Carolyn
Sullivan Buckles in Elkhart in 1988, and she survives.
Other surviving are
one son, Thomas O. (and Tammy) Beatty of Springfield; one stepson,
Stan (and Joan) Buckles of Mount Pulaski; one daughter, Karen (and
Ron) Rigdon of Macomb; two stepdaughters, Crystal (and Brad) Welch
of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Stephanie Welch of Scottsdale, Ariz.; 10
grandchildren; one brother, Charles (and Gerry) Beatty of
Burnsville, Minn.; and one sister, Freida Preihs of Culpeper, Va.
He was also preceded
in death by one sister, Barbara Royer.
He was a member of
First United Methodist Church of Mount Pulaski.
Memorials may be made to his church,
Vonderlieth Living Center or Elks Crippled Children's Hospital.
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