![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, I feel as though I was blessed with amazing grandparents. He loves to refer to me as his nephew even though we graduated high school the same year haha. He had a son later in life named Zach and Zach is like 6 months older than I am, yet he’s my uncle. I believe he’s 6’6″ or so and was always such a gentle giant. My Grandpa Burr (Mom’s stepdad) also deserves a mention because he was also a great Grandpa to me. I try and visit when I get a chance and hope to again this fall. They moved to the San Juan Islands in the mid 90s and they have this great little house that sits on a cliff and overlooks the water and the Ferry path. Such a smart guy and a superbly kind man. He tutored math in his retirement for many years after that. My Grandpa Carl worked for NASA and Boeing as a mathematician. Grandpa Beem worked his entire career for United Airlines but I honestly don’t know exactly what he did there. This time it was just me and Grandpa Beem. We always used to go to the cabin at the lake every year, but we went as a huge extended family. One of my best and last memories with him was the summer of 1993, just a couple months before his passing, he took me up to Twin Lakes in Northeastern Washington to go fishing for a week. My Grandpa Beem taught me how to fish and golf and was always such a fun grandfather. I remember my dad and Grandpa Beem had had a dumb little spat shortly before his death and hadn’t talked for a few weeks which I know hurt my dad a lot. I still remember my mom picking me up from 7th grade basketball tryouts and telling me that he had died suddenly at age 73. My Grandpa Beem died when I was thirteen and was really my first experience with death. ![]() ![]() When I was in Savannah a few weeks ago I called her and we talked all about how great Savannah is (it’s really great, visit if you get a chance.) Whenever I’m in the South I call my Grandpa Carl because his wife Mary Ann is from Alabama. Whenever I would drive cross country I would always call all my grandparents just because it was such a good time to catch up and they always seemed to like to hear of my travels. I always made a point to call my Grandma Beem at least a couple times a month as an adult. But seeing those videos of my Grandma Beem made me truly wish I had asked her more about her life beyond what I knew. About where they grew up, about the wars that both my Grandpa’s fought in. That she had a first job and a first kiss and a first plane ride.Īs a kid I always loved to ask my Grandparent’s about their lives when they were younger. That she had dreams like every young person does. I knew them as old people! Seeing those photos made me truly appreciate the entirety of my Grandma Beem’s human experience. What I mean is, I only knew them for the Grandma/Grandpa portion of their lives. What struck me so much watching those photos go by was how little I ever thought or realized about my grandparents when they were young. It was filled with photos of Grandma Beem (her name was Gladys) from her childhood in Papillion, Nebraska during the 1920s and 30s, all the way up to her final days in 2020. She was probably the grandparent I was closest with and saw the most regularly since she lived very close by.Īt Granda Beem’s funeral in September of 2020 my cousin Madeline had made a tribute video for the service. However because my Grandma Sharon (Mom’s mom) was fond of nuptials and weddings, I do have a couple bonus grandpas! I’ve reflected quite a bit on my grandparents in the last couple years after the death of my Grandma Beem (Dad’s mom) in 2020. Of the original four “blood” grandparents, only my grandpa Carl (mom’s dad) is still alive. (CST) daily.Today’s topic is one I was excited to write about and that is my grandparents. Live racing will be offered on a Saturday-Tuesday schedule, with first post time set for 1 p.m. Louisiana Downs’ winter Quarter Horse meet runs through March 25. It’s also an honor to get the chance to call races in a booth that has housed some of the top announcers in our business.” “It’s a track with great history and great racing. “I’m so thrilled to be joining the team at Louisiana Downs,” Beem said. He also served as track announcer at River Downs in Cincinnati. A native of Renton, Washington, he has degrees in English and Sociology from the University of Washington in Seattle.īeem is also an author, as his first book, Southbound, was published last March. Jason Beem will the new voice of Louisiana Downs beginning with the track’s Quarter Horse meet on January 10.īOSSIER CITY, LA-DECEMBER 8, 2014-Louisiana Downs has named Jason Beem to be its track announcer, effective with the start of the track’s Quarter Horse meet on January 10.īeem most recently served as track announcer at Portland Meadows. ![]()
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