Beebe, Georgia

Georgia (Beistle) Beebe
Oct. 25, 1882 – Aug. 20, 1953

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, Aug. 22, 1953, page 2

Mrs. Georgia Beebe, 70.

Services for Mrs. Georgia Beebe, 533 Oak Street, who died suddenly at 8 p.m. Thursday while vacationing at Lake Charlevoix, near Boyne City, were announced today.

Friends may call at the residence. Services will be held at the residence at 2 p.m. Sunday, with the Rev. T. M. Greenhoe, Presbyterian pastor, officiating, and burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Wallace Coles, and two grandchildren, all of Niles.

Mrs. Beebe was born on Oct. 25, 1882, in Detroit, and came to Niles from Detroit in 1905. She was a member of the Seepewa Reading club and of the Niles Bulb of Home Gardens.

Mrs. Beebe’s husband, the late Norman P. Beebe, who died on Dec. 27, 1945, was owner of the extensive Beebe produce farms in this area known throughout the Midwest for quantities of Cole storage vegetables and mints.

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Niles Daily Star, Friday, Aug. 21, 1953, page 2

Mrs. N. Beebe Dies Thursday at Charlevoix

Word was received here today that Mrs. Norman P. Beebe, 533 Oak street, died suddenly at Lake Charlevoix, near Boyne City, about 8 p.m. Thursday.

Details of her death could not be ascertained immediately.

The body was taken to a Boyne City mortuary. It will be transferred today to the Kiger Funeral Home in Niles.

Mrs. Beebe was on vacation at Lake Charlevoix with her daughter, Mrs. Wallace H. Coles, at the time of her death, according to the information received here.

Surviving are her daughter and two grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending arrival here today.