In Memory of

LULA

V.

BECKMAN

Obituary for LULA V. BECKMAN

Services will be 10:00 A.M. Friday, January 9 at the First Baptist Church with Dr. David L. Lowrie, Jr., pastor, officiating. Burial is in Dreamland Cemetery. Lula Fay Visage was born to Katherine and William Robert "Bob" Visage in Lockney, Texas on December 14, 1915 and moved with her family when she was a little girl to Canyon. Raised on a farm, she cultivated an endless capacity to love others with her big heart. She also developed a gift with children as she helped raise her younger siblings. She was married to Milton Myers in 1934 and had three sons, Tommy, Tim, and Gene. Milton owned and operated Myers Farm Equipment with his brother until Milton"s sudden death in 1961. She was able to recover from the death of Milton with the support of Rufus Johnson, who she married in 1962. With Rufus she began working at children"s homes throughout Texas and Colorado. She was able to help many children who needed love and guidance. After the death of Rufus in 1972, Lula moved back to Texas. Lula had known Worth Jennings since middle school and married him in 1977. Worth was a prominent business owner in Canyon. Their marriage was shortened by Worth"s battle with cancer from which he died in 1978. Clarence Beckman was an Umbarger farmer and rancher and long time Randall County Commissioner. Lula and Clarence married in 1979 and had 18 years together before his death. Her later years were spent in Houston, Texas where she could be close to her son Tim and his family. Lula touched many lives. She was a good wife, an excellent mother and a perfect example of what love should entail. She had a gentle spirit and a complaisant heart with faith that God knew what he was doing. Lula was preceded in death by her husbands, Milton Lee Myers, Rufus M. Johnson, Worth A. Jennings, all of Canyon, and Clarence Beckman, of Umbarger, her brothers, Joe and Dale Visage, and her sisters, Ola Marie Bishop and Eva Lynn Visage. Survivors include a sister, Bobbie Jean Crowley, of Farmington, NM; three sons, Gary T. (Tommy) Myers and wife, Norma, of Brentwood, TN, Tim L. Myers and wife, Diane, of Houston, TX, Gene W. Myers and wife, Rebecca, of Denver, CO; a step-daughter, Elizabeth Brockman, of Amarillo; eighteen grandchildren; seventeen great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren. The family suggests that memorials be made to The Children"s Home, 3400 S. Bowie St., Amarillo, TX 79109.