PARENTS:
Robert Beale
Elisa Stover Beale
CHILDREN:
Lillie Ann
Eugene Loyd Smith b. Aug. 1, 1933 d. Sep. 8, 1997 (# 51115475)
Nan got her nickname from her oldest grandchild.
She had the nicest smile.
She was a graduate of North Texas Teachers College in Denton, Texas.
After college she taught first in Durant Oklahoma and later in Irving Texas (the Irving school house where she taught is still standing and is now housing a small business).
Nan was a remarkable woman. She was not sheltered from hardship and never gave up. Widowed during the Great Depression and left with two small children to raise, she found odd jobs to support her family until finding full time work with the civil service where she remained until retirement.
Her children's successes are a result of her inspiration. Her son, despite contracting polio, became a professor of Law and father of three of whom two graduated college and the third owns a small business. Her daughter is a self taught accountant, avid reader, a small business owner and mother of three college graduates.
Nan's best friend was here sister Tema, whom I can still picture sitting with Nan at the kitchen table playing cards or working on crossword puzzles.
Nan was captured in a photograph taken by photographer James William "Ike" Altgens on November 22, 1963, at the corner of Main and Houston streets just over a minute before JFK was assassinated. Her position placed her about 60 feet from the spot where JFK received his fatal wound. The picture is often cropped, because Nan's exuberant pose detracts from the President and First Lady. However, in the un-cropped version you can see Nan with her trademark smile, dark sunglasses, a scarf holding her hair in place, black elbow length gloves with one arm waving strait in the air. She later told my mom that Jackie made eye contact with her at that moment.
Memorial researched and written by Nan's grandson: Joe Bagley
Robert Beale
Elisa Stover Beale
CHILDREN:
Lillie Ann
Eugene Loyd Smith b. Aug. 1, 1933 d. Sep. 8, 1997 (# 51115475)
Nan got her nickname from her oldest grandchild.
She had the nicest smile.
She was a graduate of North Texas Teachers College in Denton, Texas.
After college she taught first in Durant Oklahoma and later in Irving Texas (the Irving school house where she taught is still standing and is now housing a small business).
Nan was a remarkable woman. She was not sheltered from hardship and never gave up. Widowed during the Great Depression and left with two small children to raise, she found odd jobs to support her family until finding full time work with the civil service where she remained until retirement.
Her children's successes are a result of her inspiration. Her son, despite contracting polio, became a professor of Law and father of three of whom two graduated college and the third owns a small business. Her daughter is a self taught accountant, avid reader, a small business owner and mother of three college graduates.
Nan's best friend was here sister Tema, whom I can still picture sitting with Nan at the kitchen table playing cards or working on crossword puzzles.
Nan was captured in a photograph taken by photographer James William "Ike" Altgens on November 22, 1963, at the corner of Main and Houston streets just over a minute before JFK was assassinated. Her position placed her about 60 feet from the spot where JFK received his fatal wound. The picture is often cropped, because Nan's exuberant pose detracts from the President and First Lady. However, in the un-cropped version you can see Nan with her trademark smile, dark sunglasses, a scarf holding her hair in place, black elbow length gloves with one arm waving strait in the air. She later told my mom that Jackie made eye contact with her at that moment.
Memorial researched and written by Nan's grandson: Joe Bagley
PARENTS:
Robert Beale
Elisa Stover Beale
CHILDREN:
Lillie Ann
Eugene Loyd Smith b. Aug. 1, 1933 d. Sep. 8, 1997 (# 51115475)
Nan got her nickname from her oldest grandchild.
She had the nicest smile.
She was a graduate of North Texas Teachers College in Denton, Texas.
After college she taught first in Durant Oklahoma and later in Irving Texas (the Irving school house where she taught is still standing and is now housing a small business).
Nan was a remarkable woman. She was not sheltered from hardship and never gave up. Widowed during the Great Depression and left with two small children to raise, she found odd jobs to support her family until finding full time work with the civil service where she remained until retirement.
Her children's successes are a result of her inspiration. Her son, despite contracting polio, became a professor of Law and father of three of whom two graduated college and the third owns a small business. Her daughter is a self taught accountant, avid reader, a small business owner and mother of three college graduates.
Nan's best friend was here sister Tema, whom I can still picture sitting with Nan at the kitchen table playing cards or working on crossword puzzles.
Nan was captured in a photograph taken by photographer James William "Ike" Altgens on November 22, 1963, at the corner of Main and Houston streets just over a minute before JFK was assassinated. Her position placed her about 60 feet from the spot where JFK received his fatal wound. The picture is often cropped, because Nan's exuberant pose detracts from the President and First Lady. However, in the un-cropped version you can see Nan with her trademark smile, dark sunglasses, a scarf holding her hair in place, black elbow length gloves with one arm waving strait in the air. She later told my mom that Jackie made eye contact with her at that moment.
Memorial researched and written by Nan's grandson: Joe Bagley
Robert Beale
Elisa Stover Beale
CHILDREN:
Lillie Ann
Eugene Loyd Smith b. Aug. 1, 1933 d. Sep. 8, 1997 (# 51115475)
Nan got her nickname from her oldest grandchild.
She had the nicest smile.
She was a graduate of North Texas Teachers College in Denton, Texas.
After college she taught first in Durant Oklahoma and later in Irving Texas (the Irving school house where she taught is still standing and is now housing a small business).
Nan was a remarkable woman. She was not sheltered from hardship and never gave up. Widowed during the Great Depression and left with two small children to raise, she found odd jobs to support her family until finding full time work with the civil service where she remained until retirement.
Her children's successes are a result of her inspiration. Her son, despite contracting polio, became a professor of Law and father of three of whom two graduated college and the third owns a small business. Her daughter is a self taught accountant, avid reader, a small business owner and mother of three college graduates.
Nan's best friend was here sister Tema, whom I can still picture sitting with Nan at the kitchen table playing cards or working on crossword puzzles.
Nan was captured in a photograph taken by photographer James William "Ike" Altgens on November 22, 1963, at the corner of Main and Houston streets just over a minute before JFK was assassinated. Her position placed her about 60 feet from the spot where JFK received his fatal wound. The picture is often cropped, because Nan's exuberant pose detracts from the President and First Lady. However, in the un-cropped version you can see Nan with her trademark smile, dark sunglasses, a scarf holding her hair in place, black elbow length gloves with one arm waving strait in the air. She later told my mom that Jackie made eye contact with her at that moment.
Memorial researched and written by Nan's grandson: Joe Bagley
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