Annabelle Lee Beatty

Annabelle Lee Beatty passed away on November 21, 2024, after an extended battle with breast cancer. Born in Joplin, Missouri on April 5, 1930, she moved to Long Beach, California as a child along with her mother. They moved to Redding when Ann was a teenager where she attended Shasta High School. She was active in the glee club, the junior Red Cross, and she was also crowned as Miss Shasta Dam. While working at Dicker's Department Store in downtown Redding, she met Donald Lee Beatty, and they married in November 1949. Born in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, Don's father was a heavy equipment operator who settled in Redding in the 1940s after working on the construction of Shasta Dam.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ann worked as the credit manager at Memorial Hospital (now Shasta Regional Medical Center). In the 1970s, Don and Ann ran the Credit Bureau of Shasta and Trinity Counties and Credit Data North eventually selling it to the TRW Corporation and retiring while still in their fifties. They purchased a home on the west side of Redding where Ann became the consummate gardener taking special pride in her roses. She was a member of the Shasta Rose Society where she entered her beautiful roses and won many awards for them. An exceptionally active and energetic person into her nineties, she loved to travel, hike, garden, and spend time around her swimming pool with her family. Ann is survived by two daughters, Michelle Beatty-Eakin (Marshall), LeAnn Beatty (Borden), and three granddaughters: Lee Berglund (Matt), Lacy Eakin, and Kaylee Borden. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Turtle Bay Exploration Park [turtlebay.org]. Ann loved to go there and walk through the gardens and enjoy the view of her beloved Sacramento River from the Sundial Bridge. Her final resting place will be beside Don Beatty at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery.