Mrs. Beatrice Delph

DELPH, Beatrice G who was born in El Paso, TX to immigrant parents Ernesto G Garcia (Guanajuato, MX) and Belen Delgado (Durango, MX) on September 30, 1931, passed away on September 24, 2021 in Tucson, AZ. She was preceded in death by her husband of 64 years Walter Givens Delph (July, 2018), son William Arthur (May, 2014), father Ernesto (January, 1990), mother Belen (October, 2015), brother Arthur Garcia (October, 2020), sister Sylvia Woodfin (February, 2014) and brother Francisco Venegas (November, 2020). She is survived by her son Walter David, grandchildren William and Amber Delph and Brooke Phillips, brother Ernie Garcia, sister Grace Embry and brother James Garcia. In spite of being from a Hispanic family, Beatrice was the first family member to graduate from the University of Arizona in 1954 majoring in biology before marrying in a non-traditional ceremony in May of 1954. She went onto have a successful thirty-year career working in the Dayton, OH Community Blood Bank. She also volunteered for various churches in the Dayton Catholic Diocese and the Habitat for Humanity. She left a legacy of being an educated Hispanic woman with a well-established career, a loyal wife and dedicated mother who found time to invest in her community. This legacy will be celebrated in a Funeral Mass in her honor on Monday, October 11, 2021 at 10:00 AM at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 272 Bainbridge St, Dayton, OH. Burial in Calvary Cemetery will follow the Mass.

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