LILA F.  BEAZLEY , 90, of Correctionville, Iowa, passed away Wednesday morning, June 26, 2019 in the Correctionville Specialty Care.

Memorial services will be held on Monday, July 1 ^st , at 10:30 a.m. at the Grace Lutheran Church in Correctionville, Iowa. Pastor John Riebhoff will officiate. Burial will be in the Sunset View Cemetery at Washta, Iowa. There will be a family prayer service at 10:15 a.m. at the church on Monday. Visitation will be on Sunday from 12 noon until 5 p.m. with the family present from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com

Lila was born on August 28, 1928 at Wausau, Nebraska to Lawrence and Blanche (Rohr) Backhaus. Her family moved to the Washta area and she attended Washta School, graduating from Grand Meadow High School in 1946. She then attended Beauty School. She was married to Edward J. Beazley on December 3, 1947 at the Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Quimby, Iowa. Wedding vows read in the Salem Lutheran Church.

Lila had worked as a CNA for the Correctionville Nursing Home, egg candling for Correctionville Produce, Ann's Beauty Shop in Kingsley as a hairdresser, farm wife, homemaker, and a fantastic mother, wife, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend. She was a member of the Grace Lutheran Church in Correctionville where she had served as the church organist, bible school teacher, active in LWML. She also belonged to the American Legion Auxiliary and the neighborhood club. She enjoyed crocheting, knitting, quilting, sewing, card games, country music, bingo, books, and watching Lawrence Welk.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Edward on July 29, 2017, sister Avis (Backhaus) Polson and her husband Paul, and a daughter-in-law Pamela Beazley.

She is survived by her four children: Jerry Beazley of Cherokee, Iowa; Patrick (Rose) Beazley of Cherokee, Iowa; Bill Beazley of Correctionville, Iowa; Karen (Bill) Gold of Moville, Iowa; six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren: Nicole (Allen) Campbell and their children Hannah and Mason; Brandon Beazley and his son Ashton and step-daughter Destiny Ohrtman; Charissa (Jason) Overmohle and their children Dylan, Evan and Elise; Trent (Savanna) Beazley; Jasmine Gold and Chris Gold; sister Carole (Backhaus) and Al Dumbleton of Sebring, Florida; brother Dale and Jo Ann Backhaus of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.