Marie D. Beatty | Company co-owner, 89

Marie Deasey Beatty, 89, formerly of Lansdowne, co-owner of Beatty Lumber Co. in Upper Darby, died Friday of heart failure at the Quadrangle in Haverford.

Mrs. Beatty graduated from Lansdowne-Aldan High School and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she met her future husband, B. Harper Beatty.

In 1955, she and her husband joined the lumber company her father-in-law established in 1923. She handled finances and never retired from her position as secretary-treasurer for the firm, which is now headed by her grandson Eric Tucker.

Mrs. Beatty served on the board of Rosemont Presbyterian Home for Children and was board president for 10 years in the 1960s and 1970s.

While a student at Penn in 1940, she won the Pennsylvania Women's Amateur Golf Championship.

She remained an avid golfer and was a member of Rolling Green Golf Club. She played 36 holes in her younger days and later cut back to 18, said her daughter, Suzanne Tucker.

In addition to her daughter and grandson, she is survived by a son, David; four other grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Her husband; a son, Robert; and her grandson Scott Tucker preceded her in death.

The funeral will be at 7:30 p.m. today at Frank C. Videon Funeral Home, 2001 Sproul Rd., Broomall. Friends may call from 6 p.m. Burial will be in Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill.