Eva Beatrice Swain Squires Poelman, 92, died February 12, 1989 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Born in Salt Lake, February 4, 1897, she was the thirty-third and youngest child of Utah pioneer (1853) John Paternoster Squires (who had been barber to President Brigham Young), and tenth child of Emily Ellen Swain, another pioneer from England. Beatrice married Walter J Poelman in the Salt Lake LDS temple on June 20, 1923. He preceded her in death, on May 10, 1984. Except for their LDS mission to Missouri in 1964-65, and an earlier time when Walter was employed in that state, the Poelmans lived on the east bench of Salt Lake City, in the First Ward in the Liberty Stake, then in Yale Ward, Federal Heights Ward, Monument Park First Ward, and finally in Monument Park Fourth Ward.
They raised seven children; Ellen (Mrs. Don O.) Warner, Bountiful; Mrs. Bonnie J. Murphy, Salt Lake; Walter Squires (Eleanor Stohl)Poelman, Salt Lake; Jaye E (Barbara Anderson) Poelman, Brigham City; and Robert S. Poelman, Mrs. B Ann Thornton, and Blair S. (Bernice Raymond) Poelman, all of Salt Lake. Beatrice is also survived by a brother-in-law, John Poelman of Darby, Montana, and a sister-in-law, Elizabeth Mayhew, of Brigham City, Utah. There are 24 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren, in Utah and elsewhere. She was "Aunt Bea" to all the rest of the Poelmans in this area, and to many of the Squires, Robinson, Bennion, Boyer, and other clans. Her special lifelong friend is Fiametta Fausett.
Prior to her graduation from the University of Utah, Beatrice packed a lifetime of memories into her one-year of teaching at the high school in Hinckley, Utah. After graduation she taught at Granite High School in Salt Lake, and served as a substitute teacher in Granite and Salt Lake City School Districts. Another special time was her several years' service in the 1950's as a teacher at Primary Children's Hospital. She had a warm place in her heart for children, whom she most recently served as a primary teacher when she was past eighty years of age. With Walter, Beatrice edited and published the journals of her father. She was gifted in refinishing old furniture, and contributed to the restoration of the furnishings in the Stagecoach Inn at the state park in Fairfield, Utah. At age 90, she took up landscape painting, in order to preserve memories of homes in which she had lived. She contributed articles about her family and about her art interests to magazines of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and Relief Society organizations.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, February 16, 1989, at 12 noon at the Monument Park Fourth Ward Chapel, 2215 East Roosevelt Avenue (1450 South). Friends may call at the Larkin Sunset Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, Wednesday evening 6-8 PM, and at the Ward, Thursday one hour prior to services. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery. In lieu of flowers the family suggests contributions to: Primary Children's Medical Center, 320 12th Avenue, SLC, UT 84103.