Sumner Howard Beecher Sr.
(1886-1969)
May Ida Devine
(1891-1921)
Alfred Hugo Richard Wagner
(1877-Bet 1914/1919)
Martha Julianne Johanna Claussen
(1877-1974)
Sumner Howard Beecher Jr.
(1910-1990)
Sarah Elsa Louise Wagner
(1910-1995)
Sumner Howard Beecher III
(1931-2024)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Evelia R. Rivas

Sumner Howard Beecher III 1

  • Born: 2 Dec 1931, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 2
  • Marriage (1): Evelia R. Rivas
  • Died: 4 Mar 2024, El Paso, El Paso, TX at age 92 3
  • Buried: 28 Mar 2024, El Paso, El Paso, TX 3

   FamilySearch ID: GBHK-F4Q.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence: in 2008 in El Paso, El Paso, TX. 1

2. Obituary: El Paso Time: obituary of Sumner Howard Beecher III on 4 Mar 2024 in El Paso, El Paso, TX. 3 Sumner Howard Beecher III (aka Sonny, Sunshine), was the son of Sumner Beecher II and Sarah Elsa Louise Wagner, and was born on December 2, 1931 in San Francisco, CA and peacefully passed away at the age of 93, in his sleep on March 4, 2024 in El Paso Texas. He grew up in the Los Angeles area and at a young age joined the Air Force, and was stationed in Biloxi MS, before transferring to Biggs Field in El Paso, Texas, where he married Evelia Rivas on Aug 31st, 1957. Sumner pursued a myriad of passions. He was a gifted Blues musician, a talented painter, illustrator, a skilled professional photographer, a captivating stage actor, an avid motorcycle racer and mechanic with a never-ending thirst for knowledge. Sumner will be dearly missed and lovingly remembered by his sisters, Patricia Ann Feldstein, Else Louise Saltman, and Marta Minion Hoch, his brother, Frank Silverstein, his son, Sumner Howard Beecher IV, his daughter, Allyson Marie Beecher Smith, and his adoring grandchildren, Maddi, Brenna, Logan, and Dylan.
May he rest in peace.
Graveside services will be held on Thursday, March 28, 2024 at Fort Bliss National Cemetery at 2:00 pm.


Sumner married Evelia R. Rivas. (Evelia R. Rivas was born on 5 Dec 1929 2 and died in Houston, Harris, TX 4.)


Sources


1 Karen Beecher, Descendant of Sumner Howard Beecher, Email 14 Jul 2008.

2 McMonigle, David L., Descendants of James McMonigle Sr. (http://www.geocities.com/davemcmo2007/pafg65.htm
David L. McMonigle
800 Riverbend Ln
Middleville, MI 49333).

3 "El Paso Times (El Paso, TX)," https://www.elpasotimes.com/obituaries/paco0767405 26 Mar 2024 obituary of Sumner Howard Becher III.

4 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch," database, FamilySearch (http://new.familysearch.org : accessed 23 Sep 2024), entry for Evelia R. Rivas, person ID LVHC-NH9.



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