BLOOMFIELD -- Graveside service for Octa Beckman of Bloomfield, will be held at 10 a.m. today at West Pleasant Valley Church Cemetery near here. The Rev. Harold Ferrell will officiate.
Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Beckman, 96, died Tuesday, March 3, 1992, at Bloomfield Nursing Center.
She was born Feb. 15, 1896, at Bloomfield, daughter of Oscar and Arnette Poe Bradley. She married Herman Beckman July 4, 1949. He died Dec. 3, 1959.
Beckman was a retired salesclerk at Famous-Barr in St. Louis. She attended West Pleasant Valley Church.
Survivors include a nephew, Roy Poe of Bloomfield.
She was preceded in death by a sister and brother.
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