DOROTHY WYMER BECK, 56, was born Oct. 12,
1927 and died in July of 1984 while living in
Odessa, TX. She was in the Ranger High School
Class of 1944 at Ranger, TX & married Oliver O.
Beck in 1945 at Ranger. They had 2 sons, William
D. Beck & Richard M. Beck, and a daughter, Valencia
Beck Stevens.
Her parents were Robert and Mahdeen Wymer and
she had sisters Helen Louise Wymer Plumley (RHS-
1947), Bobbye Harbin (RHS-1946) of San Angelo,
Betty Wymer Williams (RHS-1950) & Shirley Wymer
Griffin (RHS-1956) of Ranger, TX.
HUSBAND: OLIVER O. BECK, 83, passed away
after a long illness on April 24, 2008 with burial
in Odessa, TX.
Oliver was born in Ranger on Jan. 28, 1925 to
Charlie & Frankie Freeman Beck. He was the
eldest of seven children. He spent his childhood
in the Ranger/Morton Valley area. He enlisted in
the Navy during WWII and was a Gunners Mate on the
USS Levy (DE-162). He married Dorothy Wymer (RHS-
1944) in Oct. of 1945 at Ranger. They moved to
Odessa and spent the next 40 years there. Oliver
worked as a contract pumper for Texaco and retired
at the age of 58. Dorothy passed away in 1984 and
Oliver moved back to Olden and has lived there for
the past 20 years. He enjoyed smoking and playing
dominoes and 42.
Oliver is preceded in death by a son, William Douglas,
his wife, Dorothy, his mom and dad, Frankie & Charlie,
a brother Jerry Beck (RHS-1950) and a baby sister Anna
Charlene Beck.
He is survived by a daughter, Valencia Beck Stevens;
son, Robert Charles Beck; his four grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren; brother, Billy Beck; and
three sisters, Glenda Beck Hart (RHS-1952), Lillian
Beck Petree (RHS-1953), & Dortha Beck Wood (RHS-1957).