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Lucien Hall Beam

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Lucien Hall Beam

Birth
Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Scotland
Death
Sep 1994 (aged 82)
Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Lucien Hall Beam, 82, of Hendersonville, N.C., and formerly of Lake Placid, Fla., and Waynesboro, died at 10:30 am. Saturday, Sept. 3, 1994, in Pardee Hospital,Hendersonville.
Born Dec. 13, 1911, in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of the late George Robert and Elizabeth (Matherson) Beam. His wife, Beulah L. Beam, died June 15, 1984. Mr. Beam was a 1930 graduate of Waynesboro High School. He attended the Utilities Engineering Institute in 1935 to study heating, ventilation, air, conditioning and refrigeration.
He also studied power plant engineering at the International Correspondence School, Scranton. He also attended TWA School to study radiological monitoring and electrical equipment maintenance, in addition to the drafting and blueprint training and the supervisor and personnel training program at Fairchild Aircraft Division, Hagerstown, and the Dale Carnegie public speaking and personnel training course, Waynesboro.
Mr. Bream also took courses offered by the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers and the Maryland-Delaware Water and Sewerage Association. He attended management conferences for assistant for assistant foremen with Pan American World Airways Guided Missile Range Division and Chemical Warfare School (Instructor) and
Physiological Instruction School for the U.S. Army War College in Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. Mr. Beam, had been an electrician in the 1940s and also was a foreman for a heating and ventilation plant. He then was the general foreman in the utilities division at Fairchild. For two years, he was the assistant foreman of Pan Am's electrical department and was then a maintenance mechanic with TWA/Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Bucon Inc. He retired as the lead mechanic for TWA at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
He was a member of Christ United Methodist Church, Waynesboro. He also attended Lake Placid Baptist Church. Mr. Beam also was a Scout leader for Boy Scouts of America and a member of Acacia Lodge 586 F&AM, the Lake Placid Lodge F&AM, Harrisburg Scottish Rite Consistory and Zembo Temple. He was past vice president of the Lions
Club, Universal Craftsmen, past worthy chief of the Council of Engineers, Mason-Dixon Council, and past president of the Wayne Heights Civic Association, Wayne Heights
PTA, AAA and AARP South Chapter, Waynesboro.
He is survived by one son, L. Kent Beam of Hendersonville; three grandchildren; a sister, Jane Mowen of Waynesboro; and a brother, George Robert Beam of Battle Creek, Mich.

Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro with the Rev. Dr. Charles Jessen officiating.
Snyder-Lochstampfor Funeral Home Inc., Waynesboro, is handling the arrangements.

Record Herald, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, September 6th, 1994.
Lucien Hall Beam, 82, of Hendersonville, N.C., and formerly of Lake Placid, Fla., and Waynesboro, died at 10:30 am. Saturday, Sept. 3, 1994, in Pardee Hospital,Hendersonville.
Born Dec. 13, 1911, in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of the late George Robert and Elizabeth (Matherson) Beam. His wife, Beulah L. Beam, died June 15, 1984. Mr. Beam was a 1930 graduate of Waynesboro High School. He attended the Utilities Engineering Institute in 1935 to study heating, ventilation, air, conditioning and refrigeration.
He also studied power plant engineering at the International Correspondence School, Scranton. He also attended TWA School to study radiological monitoring and electrical equipment maintenance, in addition to the drafting and blueprint training and the supervisor and personnel training program at Fairchild Aircraft Division, Hagerstown, and the Dale Carnegie public speaking and personnel training course, Waynesboro.
Mr. Bream also took courses offered by the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers and the Maryland-Delaware Water and Sewerage Association. He attended management conferences for assistant for assistant foremen with Pan American World Airways Guided Missile Range Division and Chemical Warfare School (Instructor) and
Physiological Instruction School for the U.S. Army War College in Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. Mr. Beam, had been an electrician in the 1940s and also was a foreman for a heating and ventilation plant. He then was the general foreman in the utilities division at Fairchild. For two years, he was the assistant foreman of Pan Am's electrical department and was then a maintenance mechanic with TWA/Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Bucon Inc. He retired as the lead mechanic for TWA at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
He was a member of Christ United Methodist Church, Waynesboro. He also attended Lake Placid Baptist Church. Mr. Beam also was a Scout leader for Boy Scouts of America and a member of Acacia Lodge 586 F&AM, the Lake Placid Lodge F&AM, Harrisburg Scottish Rite Consistory and Zembo Temple. He was past vice president of the Lions
Club, Universal Craftsmen, past worthy chief of the Council of Engineers, Mason-Dixon Council, and past president of the Wayne Heights Civic Association, Wayne Heights
PTA, AAA and AARP South Chapter, Waynesboro.
He is survived by one son, L. Kent Beam of Hendersonville; three grandchildren; a sister, Jane Mowen of Waynesboro; and a brother, George Robert Beam of Battle Creek, Mich.

Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro with the Rev. Dr. Charles Jessen officiating.
Snyder-Lochstampfor Funeral Home Inc., Waynesboro, is handling the arrangements.

Record Herald, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, September 6th, 1994.


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