Virginia Beatrice Whaley

Virginia Beatrice Whaley went to be with the Lord Saturday February 15, 2025. She was just 2 weeks away from her 97th birthday. Many that knew her called her Bea. A son of a family friend gave her the nickname “Honey Bee” [Bea]. And that’s what she was - sweet as honey.

Bea was born in Red Jacket, West Virginia to James Bence and Alice [Woodward] Looney. On October 16, 1946 she married her love Arthur Edward Whaley. Bea was a wonderful, loving daughter, sister, aunt, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and great-great grandmother.

Bea lived a full life. She loved the Lord with all her heart, soul, and mind. In her last years she said she was so ready to go to heaven. She said, “Do not worry or weep when I pass but rejoice because I will be with the Lord and all my loved ones who have gone on before me.” Her faith was confident, trusting, and secure.

As her eyesight grew weak Bea said the thing she missed the most was reading her Bible. She loved her plants and flowers, playing cards, gardening, cooking, baking, and making healthy foods. Even in her late 90’s she would often Google what vitamins and nutrients were in different foods.

Bea loved being part of Worthington Christian Village and had many friends. She attended Sunday morning church regularly. She loved her visits from Terry on Tuesdays who visited her faithfully for years. Even up until the end of her life Bea would walk 1-2 miles around the village. She stopped and hugged all her friends and always asked how they were doing. She would visit her sick friends and regularly checked up on them. She fervently prayed for her friends and family. Beatrice Whaley was about others and not herself.

She would always tell others to trust in God and be grateful for everything. The legacy of faith she left behind will be cherished by many. All that knew Bea will miss her beautiful warm smile and joyful laugh, but we are rejoicing with her as she is embraced in the arms of her heavenly Father. We are confident that when she arrived at the gates of heaven she heard, “Well done my good and faithful servant”. Bea will be remembered for being faithful to the Lord until the end.

Psalms 139:1-24 was Bea’s favorite passage of scripture:

"You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.

You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.

If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!

They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.

Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?

I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”

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