Mrs. Beulah T Tucker

October 16, 1926 - March 13, 2017

Beulah Thornton Tucker was born in the former logging and saw mill community of SUMICA, Fl., east of Lakes Wales on October 16, 1926 to William Asbury Thornton and Blanche Eunice Williams Thornton. She left this life on March 13, 2017 at Titusville, Fl. After the death of her father, William Thornton, the family moved to Pierce, Fl. Her mother later married John Benton. She had 2 brothers and 3 sisters. During WW II she was a telephone operator. Immediately after the war she met and married Tommy L. Tucker, a WW II U.S. Marine Corps veteran, of Lakeland, Fl. They had four children, Carolyn, Charles, Mike, and Kenny. In 1955 she and her family moved from Pembroke, Fl. to then Indian River City, now Titusville, Fl. She had 5 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren. The following year the family moved to Mims, Fl. where she raised her family and worked in various outside employment including retail, clerical, Brevard County Schools, and the Brevard County Tax Assessors office until retirement. A lifelong Christian, she was very active in her church, 1st Baptist Church of Aurantia, Fl., in the choir, ladies groups, and especially visiting the sick and infirm. She also was very active in the Mims Jacaranda Garden Club working on various community projects. BCSD would loan low risk work release inmates to the garden club to do manual labor and Mom was in charge of them. A memorial service in her honor will be conducted at 11:30 A.M., April 29, 2017 at First Baptist Church of Aurantia, 3593 Fairfax Drive, Mims, Fl. 32754. Please join us for lunch and fellowship immediately afterward in the church hall. Donations may be made to VVC (VITAS Hospice), in honor of Beulah Tucker, 4450 W. Eau Gallie Blvd., Melbourne, Fl. 32924.