Jessie Louise Lindsay

Jessie Louise Lindsay, age 105, passed away on Sunday, November 1, 2020 in Marietta, Georgia. She was born on June 30, 1915 in Southhampton County, Virginia. She was the seventh of eight children born to Edward Hunter Beaton and Mary Hatfield Beaton. She was preceded in death by her parents, her sisters, Ruby Beale, Myrtle King, Mary Raiford, Hattie Duck, Wilma Bartholomew and brothers, Robert Beaton and Howard Beaton. She was also preceded in death by her loving husband of 41 years, George Elwood Lindsay, of Kansas City, Missouri. She is survived by her son Hunter (JoAnne) grandsons, Alan (Angela) and Sean (Colby) and five grandchildren, Owen, Logan, Chloe Hunter and Mary Davis. She is also survived by many wonderful nieces and nephews, as well as countless friends and neighbors from numerous homesteads in Virginia, Florida and Georgia.

Jessie, known to many as Louise, grew up on a peanut farm in Southhampton, County, Virginia. She graduated from Courtland High School at the age of 16, where she drove the county school bus in the rural farming county. As the seventh of eight children she lived on her family farm and took her place in the family line to attend higher education. While many of her sisters chose a career in teaching, Jessie chose a career path in business and attended Strayer Business College, now Strayer University, in Washington, D.C. Graduating from Strayer in 1935, she was employed by attorneys Jesse, Phillips, Kling and Kendrick. After her marriage to her husband, George, she became an avid golfer and marksman. In 1942, she became a Red Cross Volunteer while her husband served in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1948 , her growing family moved to Falls Church, Virginia. Her background with the attorney firm allowed her to master, what today, is known as, a paralegal, and her business skills were most effective in her position as Deputy City Clerk for Falls Church, Virginia, a position she held until her retirement in 1967.

Moving to West Palm Beach, Florida, she and George were able to devote more attention to their hobbies of golf, fishing and gardening in their community of Lake Clark Shores. They were also active members of First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach. Travel around the world for Jessie and George became their passion. They visited dozens of countries, living with missionaries at times and “just roughing it” in very remote habitats. Following her husband’s death in 1980, Jessie continued her community activities, including membership in the cultural and social sorority of Beta Sigma Phi International. In 1994, she moved to Wynngate Community of Towne Lake, in Woodstock, Georgia to be closer to her family.

As a cancer survivor and in lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to cancer research.

Interment will follow, at a later date at Arlington National Cemetery with her husband, LCDR George E. Lindsay, USCG-R