THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, December 25, 1994 TAG: 9412250015
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: FRANKLIN LENGTH: Short : 31 lines
Joseph Willard (Butch) Beale III, 49, of the 34000 block of Brookside Ct., died Sat. Dec. 24, 1994, at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Mr. Beale was born in Suffolk. He was an Army veteran during the Vietnam War. He was an electrician and heating and air conditioning technician at Southampton Memorial Hospital. Mr. Beale was a member of the National Aeronautics Association, a member and Past President of the Southampton-Franklin R.C. Club, President of the P.C. Users Group and member of Franklin Moose Lodge 1573.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia Drake Beale; one son and his wife, Steven and Jennifer Beale; his mother and her husband, Mary Louise and Buddy Keen; his father and his wife, Willard and Clara Beale, all of Franklin; one sister: Joann B. Drake, and her husband, Chip, of Goldsboro, N.C.; one brother, Jerry Wayne Beale of Chesapeake; two stepbrothers, Donnie Rogers of Franklin and Jimmy Rogers of Ivor. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1994, in Wright Funeral Home by Rev. Jimmy Rogers and Rev. Larry Cribb. The burial will be at Southampton Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday. Memorials may be made to the P.C. Users Group c/o Paul D. Camp Community College, Franklin, Va.
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