On June 30th 2024, Rita A. Beaty, an accomplished Clinical Laboratory Scientist, avid reader, gardener, lover of old westerns and cooking shows, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed on to meet her maker with grace and dignity, after a short yet brave battle with cancer. She will be deeply missed by her four children, Gaynor Beaty-Mann (Derek), Natalie Beaty-Vickery (Richard), Stephanie Beaty-Brazzell (Scott), and William S. Beaty (Dave Jones), along with six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. She is survived by her younger siblings, Debbie Duvall and David Smith, and was preceded in death by her parents, Eunice Arendale Smith and Samuel W. Smith.
Most importantly, she will be dearly missed by her adoring husband, Lavearl Blue Beaty Jr., with whom she “Swannee’d” for 46 wonderfully fulfilling years.
A “Celebration of Life” was held on Wednesday July 3, 2024.
"You can't conceive, nor can I, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God"
-Graham Greene.