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MEMORIALSFAMILY RESEARCHERSLucille Beckham |
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OBITUARYLucille Beckham, 86, of McAlester, Oklahoma, died Saturday, March 12, 2011, at a local nursing home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Bishop Chapel of Memories with the Rev. Rodney Briggs officiating. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery in McAlester. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Bishop Funeral Service of McAlester. Born Jan. 7, 1925, in McAlester, she was the daughter of Talmage D. and Barbara Ezell Sirman. She graduated from Haileyville High School and then attended and graduated from McAlester Business College. She married Gilbert E. Beckham on May 26, 1942, in Holdenville. She was a longtime member of First Baptist Church of McAlester, was a housewife, bookkeeper and apartment and rental manager. She was a lifelong resident of Pittsburg County. Her hobby was genealogy and she loved researching family history and traveling to visit relatives. She also enjoyed traveling with the Prime Timers of First Baptist Church. She was a caregiver to several family members and spent time keeping up with grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In 1999 she was chosen as the first ever Miss Sertoman Of The Year by the McAlester area Sertoma Club. Survivors include a daughter, Janice Torrence, Anchorage, Alaska; son, Walter Beckham, of Muskogee; grandchildren, David R. Torrence and wife, Barbara, Canton, Ohio, Katharine Torrence Rimel and husband, Jason, Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, Michael Brackeen, and wife, Shannon, of Moore, and Brad Beckham and Kena, Atlanta. Also, great-grandchildren, Ben and Adam Torrence, Canton, Julie Anne Brackeen, of Moore, Jeri Ann Rimel and Brian Rimel, Coeur d' Alene, and Charli and Jake Bradley Beckham, Atlanta; brothers-in-law, Jay and Fern Beckham and Jack Beckham; sister-in-law, Hazel Beckham, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Gilbert Beckham; a daughter, Carla Jean Beckham; two brothers, Foy Sirman and Clyde Sirman, and one sister, Fay Yeager. |
A Special NoteJack and Audrey Sirman, two long-time S*rm*n Family researchers, sent me the following information concerning the help that they received from Lucille as they were beginning their research on the S*rm*n family. "Lucille knew someone in the Pine Bluff, Arkansas, area. She knew that this person had a relative by marriage named Sirman. This was our daughter-in-law, Karen Sirman, living in Baton Rouge. Lucille sent Karen a letter and Karen sent it on to us because she knew that we had 'dabbled' in a small way in Sirman genealogy. This was in the early 1990's and we were living in Beaumont, Texas, at that time. We corresponded with her many, many times. Over the past years, we had visited with her and her husband, Gilbert. She led the way for us to meet three other cousins that were working on the S*RM*N family line. We will dearly miss her and her guidance in our novice years of genealogy research. " Jack and Audrey Sirman |