Inez Hubbell Beares

BEARES
INEZ HUBBELL
Died February 11, 2007, age 94, in Brandon, FL nursing home. She had lived in Apollo Beach, FL for 25 years. Born January 30, 1913 in Canton, IL, Inez was the fifth daughter of Margaret and Isaac Hubbell, an itinerant coal miner in the area around Peoria. She is survived by her son Charles L. Beares, III of West Hampton Beach, NY, and her younger sister Mrs. Dorothy H. Adams of Anaheim, CA. Inez's three grandchildren are Mrs. Smanatha B. Russell of Leesburg, VA; Pittsburgh attorney Brooke B. McMorrow of Sewickley, PA; and Christopher M. Beares, an attorney in Boston. Two great- granddaughters also survive in Leesburg, VA. In 1929 Inez joined her three older sisters on the Sels Floto Circus who were part of the famous Flying Wards family where Inez became the catcher in the flying act. Later, as a member of the Tom Mix Circus (Tom Mix was her brother-in-law.) she performed center ring in a trapeze act and trained elephants. In 1932, Inez performed at West View Park with the Fearless Falcoins, a high pole act, where she did handstands 100 feet in the air on a swaypole. Here she met Charles L. Beares, Jr. who managed the park for his family. They were married in 1936 and resided in Mt. Lebanon, Fox Chapel, and Perrysville, where they raised their son Charles who gradulated from Shadyside Academy in 1955 and from Bucknell in 1959. Charles Jr. died in 1958.
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