Josephine Evangeline Lamm Beattie

Josephine Evangeline Lamm Beattie July 27, 1922 – July 9, 2015 Josephine Evangeline Lamm Beattie, 92, passed away peacefully Thursday evening July 9, 2015 at Sunrise Assisted Living in Morris Plains, New Jersey. Her funeral services will be conducted 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at Lucama United Methodist Church, 403 S. Main Street, Lucama. The Rev. Joe Stallings will officiate. Interment will be in the Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut at a later date. The family will receive friends immediately following the service. Josephine was born in Lucama on July 27, 1922 to Ivey and Louisa Lamm. She was raised on the family farm and graduated from Lucama High School in 1937 at the age of fifteen. She then attended Louisburg Junior College from 1938-1939 and Atlantic Christian College (Barton College) from 1940-1941. She graduated with her Bachelor of Arts degree and shortly thereafter, was certified as a teacher of high school French and Social Studies which she taught locally for several years. In 1943, she was awarded an engineering fellowship to North Carolina State University by Pratt and Whitney Aircraft. Upon completion of the course, she was employed by Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford, Connecticut as an engineering aide. While working at Pratt and Whitney, she met and married Robert L. Beattie, a fellow Pratt employee, and they settled in Middletown, Connecticut in 1956 raising two daughters. As a homemaker, Josephine demonstrated many talents. She especially loved sewing and made many outfits and draperies for the home. In later years, she became interested in needlepoint and spent many hours crafting unique pieces for the home. She also became interested in genealogy and enjoyed researching her family history. She joined the Daughters of the American Revolution and served in many capacities as a member of Connecticut’s Wadsworth Chapter, including Regent from 1992 to 1995. Josephine will be remembered and greatly missed for her sense of humor, her love of family, and her faith. Josephine is survived by her daughters, Susan Owen and husband, John of Chester, New Jersey and Barbara Beattie of Bowling Green, Kentucky; her four grandchildren, Matthew and Elizabeth Owen and Michael and Erin Haggerty, one great-granddaughter; sisters Sylvia Lamm of Lucama and Wanda Moore of Wilmington, and 11 nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert L. Beattie; her brothers, Ivey A. Lamm, Jr. and Frederick A. Lamm, who died as an infant; her sisters, Marjorie Burgess and Louise Radford and beloved niece Mary Katherine Lamm. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Hope Autism Foundation, 5 Lyons Mall, Box 122 Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920. Condolences may be directed to www.joyners.net.