Wahkiakum Eagle- February 2000

BEACH, Delores Aurelia	

  Age 80, died in Cathlamet.  She was born in Lawrence, Nebr., the 
daughter of Conrad J. and Margaret Buesher Hoelting.
  She graduated from Lawrence high school in 1937 and received a 
teaching certificate from the University.  She taught the third grade 
as a young woman.  She and her husband, Dwight Beach lived in Spokane 
for 25 years before moving to Kelso.  He died in 1974.  She has been a 
resident of Cathlamet since 1993 and was a member of St. Catherine 
Catholic church.
  Surviving are six daughters, Diane Faulkner, Annette Beach and Patsy 
Brannon, all of Spokane, Paula Dahl of Battle Ground and Elane Beach 
and Trine McGuire, both of Portland; two sons, Allen Beach of Ephrata 
and Gary Beach of Puyallup; a sister, Leona Brown of Plainview, Minn.; 
21 grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
  A funeral mass was held Saturday at St. Catherine.  Rosary was Friday 
in Dowling Funeral Home.  Father Michael Murphy will officiate.
  Dowling Funeral Home is in charge. 


Delores Aurelia (Hoelting)Beach
Greenwood Cemetery-Cathlamet, Wa.
28 May 1919-31 Jan 2000
(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum)