He was born in the Naomi community December 12, 1896, to the late Phalous and Jennie Smith Beshears. He was a retired farmer and a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church.
Survivors include a son, Bert Beshears, Nancy; three daughters, Sethel Weaver, Somerset, Audene Norfleet, Miamisburg, Ohio, and Sylvia Correll, Frazer; five sisters, Beulah Coner, Nancy, Nellie Moyers, Oxford, Indiana, Leva Ard, Ement, Illinois, and Lula Merrick and Ruth Gossett, both of Somerset; 17 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Iva Ard Beshears, whom he married January 25, 1917, at Naomi; four children, Herford, Harold and Wadelyn Beshears and Aliene Sturgill; five brothers, Jim, Buckner, Carl, Ernest and Hugh Frank Beshears; and four sisters, Ceola Johnson, Myrtle Tarter, Mollie Bishop and Jennie Beshears.
Services will be 2 p.m. today at Pulaski Funeral Home with the Revs. Lloyd Williamson and Clyde Strunk officiating.
Burial will be in Lakeside Memorial Gardens.
Obituary from the Commonwealth-Journal, Somerset, Kentucky - December 1988.
He was born in the Naomi community December 12, 1896, to the late Phalous and Jennie Smith Beshears. He was a retired farmer and a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church.
Survivors include a son, Bert Beshears, Nancy; three daughters, Sethel Weaver, Somerset, Audene Norfleet, Miamisburg, Ohio, and Sylvia Correll, Frazer; five sisters, Beulah Coner, Nancy, Nellie Moyers, Oxford, Indiana, Leva Ard, Ement, Illinois, and Lula Merrick and Ruth Gossett, both of Somerset; 17 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Iva Ard Beshears, whom he married January 25, 1917, at Naomi; four children, Herford, Harold and Wadelyn Beshears and Aliene Sturgill; five brothers, Jim, Buckner, Carl, Ernest and Hugh Frank Beshears; and four sisters, Ceola Johnson, Myrtle Tarter, Mollie Bishop and Jennie Beshears.
Services will be 2 p.m. today at Pulaski Funeral Home with the Revs. Lloyd Williamson and Clyde Strunk officiating.
Burial will be in Lakeside Memorial Gardens.
Obituary from the Commonwealth-Journal, Somerset, Kentucky - December 1988.
Family Members
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James Labon "Jim" Beshears
1894–1966
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Buckner Lee Beshear
1899–1976
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Zeola Eril Beshears Johnson
1901–1939
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Sarah Myrtle Beshears Tarter
1904–1984
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Carl Phalous Beshears
1905–1952
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Mollie Beshears Bishop
1907–1985
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Louella Jennie Beshears
1909–1927
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Ernest C. Beshears
1910–1977
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Beulah Clark Beshears Coner
1912–2009
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Nellie "Nell" Beshears Scrimager
1914–2002
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Lula Maude Beshears Merrick
1915–2003
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Virginia Leva Beshears Ard
1917–1995
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Ruth Marie Beshears Gossett
1919–2008
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Hugh Frank Beshears
1922–1932
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