Citcnd [
ter), 2099S

Services set
for former

Flat Rock
treasurer

FLAT ROCK — Services have
been set for former Flat Rock city
treasurer, Carolyn I. Beck, 58
who died of natural causes at’3:18
p.m. Friday in Flower Memorial
Hospital, Sylvania, Ohio,

She had been ill since 199} and
seriously ill the last month.

fiends may ee from 2:30 to 9
p.m. today and noon
Monday at the Sees
Arthur Bobcean :
Funeral Home,
Flat Rock. She
will lie in state at
I p.m. Tuesday at
First United

Methodist
Church Flat |
Rock, until ser-
vices at 2 p.m.
that day. The Rev, CAROLYN |,
Evans Bentley of BECK
First United
Methodist a officiate. Burial
will be in Michigan i
Park, Flat Rock. ain Memorial
Mrs. Beck worked a total of
years for the City of Flat Rock, a
last 28 years as treasurer, until her
retirement in 1993. Her former
assistant treasurer, Carol Gibbons,
temembered her boss as someone
who always put the customer first.
“She was good to work for. She
was kind and considerate, and her
first Priority was the people who
came in (to city hall),” Mrs. Gib-
bons said.
Mrs. Beck also had an incredible
Memory, Mrs. Gibbons recalled.
(She was) very, very intelligent.
Idon t think there was anythin,
that she didn’t remember that went
on in the city.

  

“...She took a lot of knowledge
with her, believe me.”

Born Dec, 18, 1937, in Ecorse,
she was the daughter of Lewis C.
and Evelyn (Miller) Swartzbaugh.
She married Richard W. Beck on
Oct. 19, 1974, in First United
Methodist Church, Flat Rock. The
Rev. Donald Carter performed the
nuptials.

Mrs. Beck began working at city
hall right after graduation in 1955
from Flat Rock High School,
where she was the class’ yaledicto-
rian.

The late Gladys Murphy, the
city’s clerk at the time, hired her,
Mrs. Gibbons said. “She knew
what a brain she was.”

For the next 10 years, Mrs. Beck
worked as water billing clerk,
deputy treasurer and deputy clerk.

In 1965, she became city trea-
surer, and in 1981, the city
appointed her its fiscal officer as
well.

Upon retirement, Mrs. Beck
continued to serve as treasurer of
the Flat Rock Tax Increment

Finance Authority Board (TIFA).
She resigned her treasurer’s post
in September but remained a
member of the board at the time of
her death.

She was a founder and past pres-
ident of the Wayne County Trea-
surers Association. She also was
a member of Michigan Municipal
Employees Services for Flat Rock.

Surviving are her husband,
Richard W. of Flat Rock, and two
sisters, Mrs. James (Barbara) Hall
of Thornton, Ky., and Mrs. David
(Nancy) Furgerson of Temper-
ance.

She was preceded in death by
her parents and a grandmother,
AnnMarie Swartzbaugh, who died
at the age of 105.

In lieu of flowers, memorials
may be made to the American Dia-
betes Association.