Joyce M. BEACH 

Was carried peacefully home in the loving arms of her
Savior, Jesus Christ, to her final rest on May 28,
2007. She was born Joyce McMillan to Violet (Dixon)
McMillan and Jock McMillan on November 4, 1920, in
Vancouver, B.C., Canada. She was joined by her
brother, Jack four years later. In 1924, the family
moved to Seattle and eventually settled in the Rainier
Valley. She attended Brighton Grade School and
graduated from Franklin High School in 1938. She
married Chauncey T. Beach on August 31, 1940. They
lived in Daly City, California; Anchorage, Alaska and
Great Falls, Montana, before returning to their
beloved Seattle, where they purchased the home she
lived in for almost the next 50 years. She loved
family, friends, music, new adventures and the arts.
She and her husband thoroughly enjoyed traveling and
covered the United States, Canada and Europe by
automobile, train and air many times. They made the
4700-mile round trip between Anchorage and Seattle on
the brand-new Alcan Highway in a 1939 Chrysler four
times between 1946 and 1949. She raised her family,
served her community and ran her own business until
she was 82. She worked for prominent Seattle
businessman, George Pallis for almost 40 years, and
enjoyed a close relationship with George and his wife,
their children and grandchildren as well. Joyce took
pleasure in season tickets to the Paramount and Fifth
Avenue Theaters and the Seattle Symphony for many
years. She and her husband freely gave of their time
and talents to their church, two Girl Scout troops and
the Seattle-King County Girl Scout Council, the
Presbyterian Mariners, the Seattle-King County
Emergency Feeding Program, The Friends of Youth, the
League of Women Voters and other numerous charities.
During her lifetime, she faithfully worshipped at
Brighton, Beacon Hill and Rainier Beach Presbyterian
Churches in Seattle and Lakewood Presbyterian Church
near Tacoma. Throughout her final illness during the
last five years, she continued to enjoy visits from
friends and family, take day trips, have tea parties,
go to church and up until ten days before her death,
played the piano for the enjoyment of others. She was
preceded in death by her husband in 1988 and her
son-in-law, Bill in 2001. She is survived by her
daughters, Beth and Peggy, her son-in-law, Larry, her
grandsons, Brian, Dana and Scott, her
granddaughters-in-law, Karen and Sarah, and her
great-grandsons, David and Liam. She is also survived
by her brother, Jack and his wife, Jeanne, and many
brothers- and sisters-in-law and nieces and nephews in
her large extended family. Her family invites her many
beloved friends and family members to join them in a
Celebration of her Life on Saturday, June 23, 2007, at
the Rainier Beach Presbyterian Church in Seattle at
2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that
charitable gifts may be given in her memory to The
Friends of Youth, the Seattle- King County Emergency
Feeding Program, the League of Women Voters or a
charity of your choice. 

Published in print on 6/17/2007. 
Seattle Times