Mary M. Beeman, 87, of Parkview Nursing & Rehab Center, died Thursday, January 12, 2006, at Parkview. She was born January 18, 1918, in Daniel, Wyoming, the daughter of Roy and Amy (Ramsey) Edwards.

Born on a homestead in Wyoming, her family moved back to Iowa when she was a young child. She grew up in Osceola and graduated from high school there in 1935. Mary married Wendell Beeman on December 24, 1937, in Osceola at the Christian Church. He died on October 20, 2002.

She was a record keeper at Weight Watchers from 1966 until she retired in 1984. Also, Mary and Wendell had owned the Gold Star Market in Carlisle, she had also worked for a bank in Carlisle and at Bankers Life in Des Moines.

She was a very active, long-time member of Central Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) – since the first Sunday they were in town. Mary was first and foremost a wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She was also a hard worker, learned from her parents, a homemaker, a record keeper, and an afghan knitter (for her family, friends and celebrities). She sewed from childhood, doll clothes for herself, later clothes for her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Mary is survived by two daughters Wendy Brudevold and her companion Allen Jedlicka of Hudson and Marilene and her husband Barry Farmer of Phoenix, Arizona; a sister Velma Earl of Des Moines; and six grandchildren & twelve great grandchildren.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents, husband Wendell, grandson Bill Brudevold, great granddaughter Isabella Savannah Miller, two brothers Gerald Edwards and Carl Edwards, and a sister Katherine Randa.