Louise Lucile Lee Beaman

Louise Lucile Lee Beaman, 78, of Winfield died Monday, May 1, 2000, at her home in Winfield.

The funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 4, at the Winfield United Methodist Church with the Rev. Jim Edwards officiating. Interment will follow at the Winfield-Scott Township Cemetery. Friends may call after noon on Wednesday at the Honts Funeral Home in Winfield, where the family will receive friends from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. that evening. A general memorial has been established in her name.

Mrs. Beaman was born April 11, 1922, at Noble in Henry County, the daughter of Herbert Wesley and Mabel Beauchamp Lee. She married Charles Beaman on Nov. 1, 1941. She attended Union School in southwest Swedesburg her first years of schooling. She graduated from Winfield High School in 1940 and was Salutatorian of her class. She graduated high school with a Normal Training Teaching certificate. She attended Southeastern Community College in West Burlington. She taught Washington #4 school in Louisa County for two years. She sorted and carded buttons at the America Pearl Button Company in Washington for several months. She was a relief telephone operator for Iowa Illinois Telephone Company in Winfield for seven years. She did an answering service for professionals as a business in her home and she performed a laundry service in her home. She managed the Student Union at Simpson College in Indianola for a year and also worked in the college cafeteria and kitchen with buffets and catering. She worked 17 years with dietary services at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. She worked as cashier of a coffee shop until it was automated out by machines, then she worked as a dietary hostess with the patients of the University Hospitals. She then worked as a mainline person in the public cafeteria of the Quadrangle at the University of Iowa. For 10 years, she and her son Earnest were active volunteers on the ground trains at Midwest Old Threshers. She was also a member of the Museum of Repertoire Americana in Mt. Pleasant. She was an active member of RSVP. Her first Sunday School years were at Finley, southwest of Swedesburg. She held a Sunday School office in high school and was a circle leader for a time. She was a member of MYF and of the Winfield United Methodist Church since 1937.

Survivors include one son, Ray Lee Beaman of West Burlington; a daughter-in-law, Florence Beaman of Winfield; two brothers, Ivan Lee of Winfield and Harold Lee of Muscatine; two sisters, Dorothy Baker of West Burlington and Betty Huston of Winfield; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; and two sons, Earnest Lee Beaman and Beryl Burdette Beaman.