Funeral services for Ronald M. “Ron” Beasley, Sr., 63, LaHarpe, whose death Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita was reported in Saturday’s Register, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola. Visitation will be tonight from 5 to 7 o’clock at the chapel. Burial will be in LaHarpe Cemetery. Memorial gifts may be left at the chapel, which is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.
Ron was born March 21, 1948, in San Francisco, Calif., the son of Perry Milton and Alice E. (Nigus) Beasley. He lived in California until the age 12, when the family moved to Iola. He lived here several years before moving to Hiawatha.
On Nov. 5, 1966, Ron married Dottie Vest. He served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. After his military service he went to plumbing school and moved back to Iola, where he worked 27 years for D&R Plumbing before retiring.
He was a member of LaHarpe VFW, Iola Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite in Fort Scott, Mirza Temple in Pittsburg, Hospital Dads, Hardly Able Fire Department and Mobile Nobles.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Dottie; two sons, Ronald M. Beasley Jr. and wife, Suzy, Humboldt, and Milton Paul Beasley, LaHarpe; a daughter, Patricia Mae Payne and her husband, Craig, Iola; a brother, William “Bill” Beasley and his wife, Barbara, LaHarpe; two half-sisters, Rosie Stokes and her husband, Allen, Iola, and Edna Green of Colorado Springs; six grandchildren, Amanda Lewis, Derek Beasley, Audrey Payne, Shae Beasley, Zane Beasley and Carlie Jo Payne; and a great-granddaughter, Adalie Boisvert. He was preceded in death by a sister, Carol VanDam.
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