Yvonne Loretta Beckenhauer

Yvonne Loretta Beckenhauer, born July 13, 1927, passed peacefully October 13, 2021 in Watsonville Community Hospital. She was 94.

Born in Oklahoma, she moved with her family to California in 1934 during the Dust Bowl. She graduated from Watsonville High School in 1945. She married her beloved Rolland (Beck) Beckenhauer at the end of WWII.

Yvonne worked many years for and retired from Watsonville Savings and Loan. She also served as an officer for the S&L.

She devoted most of her adult life to the Order of Eastern Star. She was a 75-year member of Lily of the Valley/Wild Lily Chapter, where she served as Worthy Matron several times. She served at the state level as Deputy Grand Matron in '62, Grand Adah in '76, and Worthy Grand Matron in '89. She traveled from one end of California to the other and looked forward to attending Grand Chapter every year, visiting with and making new friends everywhere she went. She was active in the Order until the last year of her life.

She was preceded in death by her beloved "Beck", her parents, Jess and Ida Fountain of Watsonville, her sisters Velma Blankenbiller of Santa Cruz, and Mary Sheehan of Eagle Mountain, UT. She is survived by 1 niece and 4 nephews; 6 great-nieces and 2 great-nephews; several great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews.

Her ashes will be interred at Pajaro Valley Memorial Park adjacent to Beck's.

Donations may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.

Published in The Pajaronian · December 16, 2021