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 Elizabeth "Betty" Ohl Beals
June 02, 2005
Elizabeth "Betty" Ohl Beals, 91, of Kimball Farms Retirement Community since 1989, formerly of Jerome Drive, Williamstown, died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield.
Born in Meriden, Conn., on Nov. 11, 1913, she was the daughter of George and Charlotte Bannister Ohl.
She and her husband worked at Williams College and lived in Williamstown for 22 years in a house she designed.
Most recently, Mrs. Beals volunteered in the library at Kimball Farms. Professionally, she had been a librarian at both American University in Washington and at Williams College.
She joined the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the late 1940s.
She started and worked in a nursery school at the Quaker Friends Meeting in Searsdale, N.Y., and was instrumental in establishing a Quaker meeting in Lenox.
She volunteered in a school for the blind in New York City and for the League of Women Voters in Westchester, N.Y. While in Williamstown, she volunteered for the Recording for the Blind organization.
In the Berkshires, she was an enthusiastic fund-raiser for the Community Chest and for A Better Chance (ABC) program, assisting urban youth. She spent several years volunteering for the Visiting Nurses Association in their Women's Exchange thrift shop in Williamstown.
She was also a volunteer driver of cancer patients and participated regularly in American Red Cross blood drives.
An avid quilter, traveler and outdoorswoman, she loved to hike the Adirondacks and participated in numerous opera, art and archaeology trips throughout Europe and the United States.
She and her husband, the late Lawrence Wilson Beals, were married in Washington on March 28, 1964. Mr. Beals was professor of philosophy at Williams.
She leaves a daughter, Sara Koster of Reston, Va.; a son, George Ohl Withers of Greenbelt, Md., and five grandchildren. A son, Samuel Clayton Withers III, died on May 21, 1983.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- Services for Elizabeth Ohl Beals, who died June 2, 2005, will be private. Her ashes will be interred at the Williams College Cemetery in Williamstown at a date to be announced. Memorial donations may be made to HospiceCare in the Berkshires in care of ROCHE FUNERAL HOME, 120 Main St., Lenox, MA 01240.
Survivors include five grandchildren, Samuel and Elizabeth Withers of Greenbelt and College Park, Md., and Jessica, Jeremy and Kara Withers of Tucson, Ariz.
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