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Evelyn Crews Beeson, 99, on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2020, holds a yearbook from her sophomore year at Gaston High School in Texas, where was voted Most Beautiful Girl while she lived there for one year with an older sister. There she is, Beeson said when she looked at her photo from age 15. Beeson, who turns 100 on Dec. 25, is a central Florida native who has lived in the Upstate since 1946.By Anna B. Mitchell
amitchell@postandcourier.com
GREENVILLEÂ â Evelyn Crews Beeson was born Dec. 25, 1920.
Reply James (Jim) Benedict Kobak passed away peacefully at age 99 at home in Redding on October 31. (Shutterstock)
Information Courtesy Bouton Funeral Home
REDDING, CT James (Jim) Benedict Kobak passed away peacefully at age 99 at home in Redding on October 31. He was born in March 1921, in St. Louis, Missouri, as the second son of the late Evelyn and Edgar Kobak, an advertising executive and former president of the Mutual Broadcasting Company.
Jim and his wife, Hope, were longtime residents of Darien, raising three children there, Jim Jr., John and Tom. In later years, he and his wife also had a home in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands and spent much of their time there. Jim lived the last eighteen years of his life at Meadow Ridge in Redding, Connecticut, with Hope, until she predeceased him in 2018.
Jim Harsh
Oskaloosa, Iowa | Age 97
Served With Honor ~ United States Military Veteran
Jim Harsh, 97, of Oskaloosa, passed away Sunday, November 29, 2020 at the home of his granddaughter in Davenport, Iowa.
James L. Harsh, son of Delbert and Helen (Wickle) Harsh, was born March 21, 1923, in New Virginia, Iowa.
Jim was a 1941 graduate of New Virginia High School, where he played basketball and baseball.
Soon after graduating, Jim went to work at the Fort Des Moines Hotel as head of the beverage department; he later became a cook at the hotel.
On July 4, 1942, he married Evelynn Dickinson, and they made their home in Des Moines.