Visitation will be Saturday February 7th from 6 to 8 pm also at the funeral home in Drexel. Burial will follow services in Crescent Hill Cemetery, Adrian, Missouri. Contributions are suggested to Gentiva Hospice or Drexel Meals on Wheels. Messages of condolence for the family may be left at www.mullinaxfuneralhome.com.
Leora Mary (Beeman) Brock was born in Merwin, Missouri on May 20, 1924. The daughter of Ray T. and Ivan Leora Fink Beeman. Leora moved to the New Lancaster community and has lived there for 73 years. She was married to Keith Brock in Drexel, Missouri on June 14, 1959.
Leora worked at various jobs, sitting with the elderly, working as a waitress, grocery clerk, sewing factories, selling Avon and volunteering at Adrian Manor for years. Leora & Keith opened their home to several foster children. In later years, she took care of her ailing husband. After his passing in 2009 she went back to one of her favorite jobs, selling Avon. She continued to sell until her death. Leora was always in the Avon Presidents Club. She was an extremely kind person and always had a smile and a kind word to say. She would help anyone in need.
Leora belonged to the Drexel Baptist Church and was a charter member of the Linn Valley Lake Church.
Leora was preceded in death by her husband Keith, her parents, four brothers; Ray J., Robert D., Ivan Omer, and Dale (Frog) Beeman. She is survived by a brother Raymond Erwin Beeman and wife Edith of Springfield, MO, a sister Lila (Beeman) Harris and her husband Ronald of Drexel, MO, and by many nieces and nephews. “God saw you get tired, and a cure was not to be. So He put His arms around you and whispered, “Come with Me.”
Leora Mary (Beeman) Brock was born in Merwin, Missouri on May 20, 1924. The daughter of Ray T. and Ivan Leora Fink Beeman. Leora moved to the New Lancaster community and has lived there for 73 years. She was married to Keith Brock in Drexel, Missouri on June 14, 1959.
Leora worked at various jobs, sitting with the elderly, working as a waitress, grocery clerk, sewing factories, selling Avon and volunteering at Adrian Manor for years. Leora & Keith opened their home to several foster children. In later years, she took care of her ailing husband. After his passing in 2009 she went back to one of her favorite jobs, selling Avon. She continued to sell until her death. Leora was always in the Avon Presidents Club. She was an extremely kind person and always had a smile and a kind word to say. She would help anyone in need.
Leora belonged to the Drexel Baptist Church and was a charter member of the Linn Valley Lake Church.
Leora was preceded in death by her husband Keith, her parents, four brothers; Ray J., Robert D., Ivan Omer, and Dale (Frog) Beeman. She is survived by a brother Raymond Erwin Beeman and wife Edith of Springfield, MO, a sister Lila (Beeman) Harris and her husband Ronald of Drexel, MO, and by many nieces and nephews. “God saw you get tired, and a cure was not to be. So He put His arms around you and whispered, “Come with Me.”
