Psalm 121

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,
from whence cometh my help.

My help cometh from the Lord,
which made heaven and earth.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved;
he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall
neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord is thy keeper;
the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not smite thee by day,
nor the moon by night.

The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil;
he shall preserve thy soul.

The Lord shall preserve thy going out 
and thy coming in from this time forth,
and even for evermore.

      Georgie “Bea” Beard, 75, of St. Charles, died at 2:47 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, 2005, at St. Joseph Health Center in St. Charles.

Mrs. Beard was born on March 12, 1930, in McGehee, Ark., a daughter of William Milton and Linnie Ethel Keahey Stuart. On Dec. 6, 1947, in McGehee, she married Walter Beard Jr., who died on Nov. 28, 1987. She had worked as a certified nursing assistant at Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis, and was a member of the Baptist faith.

Survivors include three daughters, Lin Diekamp and husband Walter, Auxvasse, Neva Martin and husband Harry, St. Peters, and Debra Dickinson and husband John, St. Charles; one brother, William Milton Stuart Jr. and wife Pauline, Memphis, Tenn.; one sister, Neva G. Ensminger and husband Earl, Nesbit, Miss.; eight grandchildren, four great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, one son, Walter Beard III, one brother, Donald Stuart, and one grandson, Justin Martin, preceded her in death.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Aug. 30, 2005, at Pickering Funeral Home with the Rev. James Cruickshank officiating. Pallbearers will be her grandsons and grandsons-in-law. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until the time of the service at the funeral home. Burial will be in Hickory Grove cemetery near Auxvasse.

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