Clarence
Beck, 98
Hallock
- Clarence Beck, 98, of Hallock, died at the
Kittson Memorial Healthcare Center in Hallock on
Saturday evening, July 17, 2004.
Funeral
services will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July
21 (today) at Sion Lutheran Church in Lancaster.
Interment will be held at Riverview Memorial Garden
Cemetery in Lancaster, with Rev. Timothy Lundeen
presiding. Casket bearers include Clarence's
grandchildren. Honorary casket bearers include the
Hallock Lion's Club.
Clarence
was born in Waverly, Iowa on December 1, 1905, the
son of Dorr and Mary (Lampe) Beck. His family moved
to Belgrade, when Clarence was four months old and
in 1915 they moved to Lancaster. Clarence moved to
Minneapolis and worked for Purity Bakery there for
several years. On May 13, 1925, he married Ida
Meyers in Minneapolis. They returned to Lancaster
and settled on a farm north of town. In 1953,
Clarence began working at the ASCS office in
Hallock. He retired from there in 1975. Ida died on
July 17, 1966. Clarence married Emma Johnson on
January 19, 1968 in Tucson, Ariz. Emma died on
March 12, 2003.
Clarence
led a very rich and active life, playing semi-pro
baseball for the Phillips 66 Flyers in Minneapolis,
playing community baseball until he was 62,
coaching Lancaster Legion baseball, deer hunting,
and shooting his last deer at the age of 90. He was
also active in Kittson County, serving on the
hospital board from 1952 to 1977, the Northwest
Minnesota Multi-County Housing Authority commission
from 1972 to 1992, the Lion's Club and was Kittson
County's Outstanding Senior Citizen in 1978.
Clarence became a resident of the healtcare center
in February.
Survivors
include a daughter, Shirley (Elwood) Ehrenstrom of
Thief River Falls; one son, Bill (Marilyn) Beck of
Ottertail; a daughter-in-law, Iris Beck of Otter
Tail; 10 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren;
nine great-great-grandchildren; and one brother,
Walter Beck of Oakland, Calif.
He
was preceded in death by one son, Lloyd and three
sisters, Thelma, Olinda and Viola.
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