Georgia Inez Beers

Georgia Inez Beers, 87, Altus, passed away on Thursday, December 2, 2010 at her home surrounded by her loving family. Funeral services will be 2:00 PM Monday, December 6, 2010 at the First United Methodist Church with Rev. David Player officiating. Burial will be in the Altus City Cemetery under the direction of the Kincannon Funeral Home. Georgia Inez Block was born on September 24, 1923 in Lockesburg, Arkansas to Lloyd L. and Iva Mae (Watson) Block. The family moved from Arkansas to Southwest Oklahoma in 1937 and she graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1943. She married Bob Beers in Clovis, New Mexico on December 8, 1943. She owned her own beauty shop for many years before retiring. Bob supported Georgia in her quest to find her grandfather Jacob, a German Mennonite who came to Kansas from Russia in 1874. This took the couple to many states and hundreds of cemeteries walking up and down looking for the Block name, including the National Archives. One of Georgia’s dreams since she was 16 was owning a sports car. But being a “Depression Child”, she never thought she would own one. Georgia worked on her parents farm in Roosevelt milking cows and hoeing cotton. Bob purchased a ticket for ten dollars, won a Corvette and promptly turned to his beautiful bride and handed her the keys. She looked at her kids and said “Can you believe this”? Her children could only think of the song “little old lady from Altus, Oklahoma”. She shared her prize with anyone wishing to ride in her car. She was generous and loving to her last breath. Bob and Georgia lived in all parts of Oklahoma since Bob was in the Oklahoma State Highway Patrol for 33 years. Georgia was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Altus AARP, Republican Women, and the VFW Auxiliary. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church and was active in the Quilters Group. She was a Jackson County Memorial Hospital Volunteer and loved to play bridge, golf and quilt. Her daughter, Barbara, a granddaughter, Patricia Spurgeon, a grandson, Robert A. Beers, II, her parents, and two brothers, Jake and Lloyd Block, Jr., preceded her in death. Survivors include her husband, Bob, of the home; a daughter, Beverly Cullen and her husband, Bernie, of Fort Meade, Maryland; two sons and daughters-in-law, Robert A. Beers and Barbara Jean of Sacramento, California, and William Lloyd Beers and Cathy of Enid, Oklahoma; and a sister and brother-in-law, Mabel Blackwood and Clyde of Altus, Oklahoma; eleven grandchildren, Benjamin Beers, Bryan Beers, Brandon Beers, Bradley Beers, Billy Bob Beers, Brian Beers, Laura Kay Spurgeon Walzer, Terry Spurgeon Grothe, Alicia Coffin Chick, Heather Thornberg Sorenson, Chad Thornberg, tweleve great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. The Beers Family will greet friends Sunday afternoon from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. at Kincannon Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to JCMH Hospice in Altus.