Beatrice Blanche "Bea" Keesling-Hull, 93, died March 5, 2008, at her home in Hutchinson.

She was born Feb. 11, 1915, in Durham, the daughter of Andrew Phillip and Susie Anna Unruh Beltz. She attended schools in Sylvia and graduated from Plevna High School and later Adela Hale Business College in Hutchinson. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she worked in sales at Anthony's and J.C. Penney's before retiring from the Reno County Treasurer's Office in the Courthouse in 1977. Later she worked at Wiley's and Pegues.

She was a charter member of Faith United Methodist Church. She was active in the church choir, Esther group and the United Methodist Women. She was also a member of the Women Of The Moose Hutchinson Chapter #1371 and Women's Civic Center.

On Jan. 12, 1936, she married Gerald E. Keesling in Sylvia. He died Aug. 27, 2003. On Nov. 11, 2005, she married Lowell D. Hull. He survives.

Other survivors include: three daughters, Shirley Phillips, Prague, Okla., Rochelle Hippen, Hutchinson, and Kathleen Noblett, Overland Park; a brother, Andrew Beltz, Denver; a sister, Marilyn Smiley, Stafford; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Javen and Samuel Beltz; and three sisters, Mary Beltz, Bernice Keesling and Verda Etchison.

Funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Elliott Mortuary, Hutchinson. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the mortuary. The family will greet friends from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the mortuary. Burial will be in Penwell-Gabel Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hutchinson.

Memorials may be sent to Hospice Care of Kansas in care of the mortuary.