Beulah Ann Boozer

Beulah Boozer was born Beulah Ann Fletcher on October 27, 1924, in Havana, FL. She was the youngest of six children, and grew up during the depression, in Tallahassee, FL. She was the first in her family to graduate from college, and obtained a degree in Mathematics from, what was then, Florida State College for Women, and is now Florida State University. After graduation, Beulah taught Math at a high school in Marianna, FL, where she met the man she would later marry, Oscar Leroy Boozer. Beulah and Oscar met at the boarding house where they both lived while in Marianna. Oscar would ask her to sew buttons back on for him! Beulah left Marianna and teaching, and moved back home to Tallahassee to take a secretarial job at a church, while Oscar moved to the Atlanta area to teach. Later, as Oscar's career flourished with the Atlanta Public School System, he made a trip back to Tallahassee, FL, and arranged to take Beulah to meet his parents in his hometown in South Carolina. Beulah said it was not easy to convince her parents to let her go! Oscar asked Beulah to marry him, and they were married in Florida six months later on April 4, 1953. Oscar and Beulah lived in Atlanta until they bought a 45 acre track of land in Conyers, GA, built a house on it, and moved to Conyers with their three young children, Larry (b. 1955), Ann (b. 1957), and Joy (b. 1959), in 1962. They raised cattle and gardened while in Conyers. Oscar continued to work for the Atlanta School System, while Beulah was a homemaker. Oscar and Beulah had two additional children after moving to Conyers, Alan (b. 1965) and Daniel (b. 1968). They remained in Conyers to raise their five children. Oscar and Beulah both had a strong faith, and faithfully attended Smyrna Presbyterian Church while in Conyers. All five children attended, as well. Oscar and Beulah were married for 40 years until Oscar's death in 1993. Beulah remained faithful to the love of her life and never remarried. She lived in the house she and Oscar built until she broke her hip in April, 2021. After Oscar passed away, and with none of her children still living at home, Beulah taught Sunday School to pre-schoolers, and went on mission trips to Belize and Kenya - while in her 80's. Beulah was tested for mild Alzheimer's Disease in 2009, at age 85, and lived with this cruel disease until her passing on December 9, 2022. Beulah was always an advocate for music. In her younger years, Beulah played the piano, and she encouraged all of her five children to take piano lessons, and play a musical instrument in the school band. She still enjoyed listening to music in the late stages of her disease. Beulah was the proud grandmother of ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren, with two additional great grandchildren on the way at the time of her death. Beulah will be missed dearly by all who knew and loved her, but we take comfort in knowing she is now reunited with her beloved Oscar, her parents and siblings, and our Lord and Saviour.

Beulah Ann Boozer

October 27, 1924 - December 9, 2022