Donald Clifford Beach

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Donald Clifford Beach Veteran

Birth
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30 Jun 1959 (aged 42)
Burial
Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska, USA Add to Map
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Beach, Donald C. -

Donald C Beach, manager and owner of the Fremont Union Transfer Company; Fremont, Nebr, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon of a heart attack, at the age of 42.

Mr Beach was born on November 15, 1916 in. Lenox and graduated from Lenox High School. He moved to Fremont in 1935 and there he became the manager and owner of the Fremont Union Transfer Co. and the agent for North American Van Lines Co.

In 1941, he entered the army and served as a Third Army officer during World War II. Mr Beach was one of the first Fremont area men to enter service at the start of the war.

On June 5, 1946 he was united in marriage to the former lona Ericson of Genoa, Nebr, and to this union was born one daughter, Bonnie.

Mr Beach was 1959-60 chairman of the Chamber of Commerce

industrial committee and had been active with several other chamber committees. His most recent public service work was in helping to organize city wide polio vaccine inoculations.

In 1952, he won the AkSarBen Good Neighbor award for his participation in a $3,000 flood relief drive for Ottawa, Kan.

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Elks Club, Fremont Golf Club, American Legion and was a former president of the Kiwanis Club. He was active in the army reserve and held the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Survivors include his wife, lona and daughter Bonnie of Fremont; his mother, Mrs Eula Beach; his grandmother, Mrs Mary Ann Page, both of Lenox; four brothers, Robert P of Washington D C; Walter of

Dallas, Tex; M-Sgt Dale of Hamilton AFB, Cal; and Bill L of Sharpsburg; four sisters; Mrs James Chandler of Van Nuys, Cal; Mrs Julian Walter of Lenox; Mrs Walter Steinke of Hawthorne, Cal and Mrs Clifford Nook of Sharpsburg and a number of nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father and one brother.



Services for Donald Beach were held Thursday, July 2 at

Presbyterian Church in Fremont with the Rev Dr Lynn Taylor officiating. Burial was in Ridge cemetery, Fremont. Military services were conduct at the graveside.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday July 9, 1959
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Beach, Donald C. -

Donald C Beach, manager and owner of the Fremont Union Transfer Company; Fremont, Nebr, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon of a heart attack, at the age of 42.

Mr Beach was born on November 15, 1916 in. Lenox and graduated from Lenox High School. He moved to Fremont in 1935 and there he became the manager and owner of the Fremont Union Transfer Co. and the agent for North American Van Lines Co.

In 1941, he entered the army and served as a Third Army officer during World War II. Mr Beach was one of the first Fremont area men to enter service at the start of the war.

On June 5, 1946 he was united in marriage to the former lona Ericson of Genoa, Nebr, and to this union was born one daughter, Bonnie.

Mr Beach was 1959-60 chairman of the Chamber of Commerce

industrial committee and had been active with several other chamber committees. His most recent public service work was in helping to organize city wide polio vaccine inoculations.

In 1952, he won the AkSarBen Good Neighbor award for his participation in a $3,000 flood relief drive for Ottawa, Kan.

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Elks Club, Fremont Golf Club, American Legion and was a former president of the Kiwanis Club. He was active in the army reserve and held the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Survivors include his wife, lona and daughter Bonnie of Fremont; his mother, Mrs Eula Beach; his grandmother, Mrs Mary Ann Page, both of Lenox; four brothers, Robert P of Washington D C; Walter of

Dallas, Tex; M-Sgt Dale of Hamilton AFB, Cal; and Bill L of Sharpsburg; four sisters; Mrs James Chandler of Van Nuys, Cal; Mrs Julian Walter of Lenox; Mrs Walter Steinke of Hawthorne, Cal and Mrs Clifford Nook of Sharpsburg and a number of nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father and one brother.



Services for Donald Beach were held Thursday, July 2 at

Presbyterian Church in Fremont with the Rev Dr Lynn Taylor officiating. Burial was in Ridge cemetery, Fremont. Military services were conduct at the graveside.

Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday July 9, 1959

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NEBRASKA
LT COL QMC USAR
WORLD WAR II BSM