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Submitted: 2/26/24 • Approved: 2/26/24 • Last Updated: 2/29/24 • R1521536-G1521535-S3
January 9, 1959 - September 4, 2000
Rebecca "Becky" Jones Beam, 41, of Fort Smith died Monday, Sept. 4, 2000, in Locust Grove.
She was a graduate of Southside High School and a therapist for H & S Rehabilitation. She volunteered for the Red Cross, was a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the director at Bill Willis Health Center in Tahlequah for several years. She was a member of Temple Baptist Church.
Funeral was 11 a.m. Friday in Putman Funeral Home Chapel in Fort Smith with burial at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Fort Smith.
She was survived by one daughter, Heidi Richardson of Fort Smith; her mother, Jean Jones Collier of Fort Smith; her step-father, King Collier of Fort Smith; two sisters, Verronica "Roni" Jones and Brenda Elliott, both of Fort Smith; two brothers, Larry Jones of Midland, Texas, and John Merle Jones of Boca Raton, Fla.; two grandchildren, Barry Richardson III and Makayla Richardson.
Pallbearers were Cliff, Stuart and Billy Boyd Jr., Brian Rogers, Dennis Lasiter, Jimmy D. Avey and Robert Reed.
Honorary pallbearers were her uncles.
Photo courtesy of Frances Allen Titsworth
Contributed on 2/26/24 by Billsully060
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