Visitation will be held from 12:00pm until 2:00pm, Thursday, July 13, 2023, at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. Funeral services will follow at 2:00pm in the funeral home chapel with interment in Glenwood Memorial Park in Richland.
Mrs. Beckham was a long-time teacher's aide for Richland Elementary school. A loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, her family was at the heart of everything she did, and she adored her grandson and great-grandsons.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 61 years, J. N. Beckham, in 2019.
Survivors include her daughter, Gerri Beckham Yelverton; grandson, Ryan VanGordon; great-grandson, Payton and Stone VanGordon; and brother, Robert Higdon.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital at stjude.org.