"Lawrence Melvin Beckstrom
A funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5, 2001, in Memorial Gardens Funeral Chapel in Vancouver, Wash., for Lawrence Melvin "Larry" Beckstrom, who died Oct. 29 at age 54.
Mr. Beckstrom was born May 21, 1947, in Milwaukie. He graduated from Milwaukie High School. He was the sales manager for Glacier Northwest, a gravel company, since 1973. He moved to Woodland, Wash., in 1997.
Survivors include his son, Jody; stepson, Louis; father and stepmother, Melvin and Vivian; sisters, Elaine Andrews and Diana Smith; and stepsisters, Joan Presler, Jane Kilpatrick and Debra Easterby.
Interment in Evergreen Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Vancouver. Remembrances to a favorite charity."
This is Nancy Anderson here. May Larry rest in peace. I went to school with him, from my earliest recollections, from the very early grades of grammar school either 3rd or 4th grade on through high school. At one time about then I had a crush on him and another classmate (maybe Jim Short) at the same time. I was very shy so no one knew. I thought he was the cutest boy in grade school or at least in my classroom.
This is sad that Larry didn't even stay around for his senior citizen years. We will all miss him very much! May his family have very fond memories of him also!
Doug Brazil
From the Oregonian archives 3 November 2001:
"Lawrence Melvin Beckstrom
A funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5, 2001, in Memorial Gardens Funeral Chapel in Vancouver, Wash., for Lawrence Melvin "Larry" Beckstrom, who died Oct. 29 at age 54.
Mr. Beckstrom was born May 21, 1947, in Milwaukie. He graduated from Milwaukie High School. He was the sales manager for Glacier Northwest, a gravel company, since 1973. He moved to Woodland, Wash., in 1997.
Survivors include his son, Jody; stepson, Louis; father and stepmother, Melvin and Vivian; sisters, Elaine Andrews and Diana Smith; and stepsisters, Joan Presler, Jane Kilpatrick and Debra Easterby.
Interment in Evergreen Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Vancouver. Remembrances to a favorite charity."
Nancy Anderson
This is Nancy Anderson here. May Larry rest in peace. I went to school with him, from my earliest recollections, from the very early grades of grammar school either 3rd or 4th grade on through high school. At one time about then I had a crush on him and another classmate (maybe Jim Short) at the same time. I was very shy so no one knew. I thought he was the cutest boy in grade school or at least in my classroom.
This is sad that Larry didn't even stay around for his senior citizen years. We will all miss him very much! May his family have very fond memories of him also!
Janice Lindland
I also had a crush on Larry at one time in my life