Irene Beggs

SCOTT CITY - Irene Beggs, 92, died at 3:45 a.m. April 22, 2006, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center in Cape Girardeau.

Born Aug. 1, 1913, in Chaffee, son of the late James Irvin Lewis and Ora Irene Grant Lewis Eastwood, she had been employed as a bookkeeper with A.E. Birk and Son of Cape Girardeau. She was a member of Centenary Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau and Irene Ham Lodge of the Ladies Auxiliary of U.T.U.

On Aug. 1, 1942, she was united in marriage to Ervin Lester Beggs who preceded her in death on Sept. 13, 1993.

Four brothers and one sister also preceded her in death.

Survivors include: one stepdaughter, Mary Jeane Woodle of Texarkana, Texas; three brothers, J.C. Eastwood, Don Eastwood and Phillip Eastwood, all of Chaffee; one sister, Beulah Gnannwachter of Kelso; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Visitation is from 9:30 a.m. until time of services at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. The Rev. Karen Mustoe will officiate.

Entombment will follow in the Memorial Park Mausoleum in Cape Girardeau.