Elizabeth Ann Edmonds Eisen

She was born February 9, 1940, in Pinehurst, North Carolina. She was a military wife for 30 years.

In 1985, she married Irving Eisen and moved to Beaumont, TX. In Beaumont, Elizabeth served as co-chair of Lamar University Art and Music Foundation, Board member of both Baptist and St. Elizabeth hospitals, co-chair of the Texas Energy Museum, and chaired the revitalization committee of the Jefferson Theater for which she received an award.

She was a business owner in Beaumont and San Antonio. In San Antonio, she sponsored foreign students from the Defense Language Institute. Beth carried herself through life with exceptional grace, was kind to all she met and will be missed by all whose lives she touched.

She was preceded in death by her husband Irving M. Eisen.

She is survived by her soul mate David Bamberger; children, Robert Allgood and wife Heather, Elizabeth Dawn Hayes and husband Danny, USA retired, COL Joy Berchin Ream, USA and husband Robin, Robin Kressbach and husband Gary; grandchildren, Richard, Christopher, Courtney, Michael and Jacob Allgood, Gabriel Ream, Jonathan, Benjamin and Michael Kressbach, Justin Saint-Jacques; and four great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Saturday, April 10, 2010, at Porter Loring Mortuary North.

SERVICE

SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010

5:00 P.M.

PORTER LORING NORTH CHAPEL

Interment will be held at a later date in Cameron, North Carolina. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to her great-grandson Candon @ www.caringbridge.org/visit/candonbiggs.