BEASON, Bryan
BRYAN BEASON
Source: Obituary from a collection of Fauniel Hershbarger, a life-long Fountain County Indiana resident
WILLIAMSPORT, Ind. — Bryan Beason, 81, of Attica Route 4, died at 11:55 p.m. Monday (Sept. 4, 1978) at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette. He had been a patient 2 1/2 weeks and in failing health four years. He was a farmer in Warren County all of his life and was a past president of the Rainsville Cemetery Association. Mr. Beason also was a member of the Hickman Heights Christian Church and Warren County Farm Bureau. Born Nov. 17, 1896, he was a son of John and Sarah Jane Elwell Beason. He married Della Kight in Covington in 1927. She died in 1960. He then married Dolpha McKinney Snider in 1961. She preceded him in death in 1972. Survivors include a son, Milton Eugene Beason of Lafayette; a daughter, Mrs. Herman (LaVerna) Fink of Williamsport Route 1; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Esther Lenora Long of Veedersburg; three stepsons, Albert Snider of Attica, Larry Snider of Williamsport and Dick Snider of Lafayette; three sisters, Mrs. Sadie J. Gardner and Mrs. Mirinda Day, both of Indianapolis, and Miss Golda Beason of Attica Route 4; nine grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. Three brothers and two sisters also preceded him in death. Visitation will be after 5 p.m. Wednesday at Fisher Funeral Home in Williamsport. Services will be there at 2 p.m. Thursday. Burial will be in Rainsville Cemetery.--waw