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Beulah Grahm

Grahm/Walker & Brown Generation 3 back

Meghan’s great-grandmother, born in Colorado to the Grahm/Walker and Brown families.

Descent: Meghan Jane LeineweberCatherine Raye LobbPatricia Jane LoomisBeulah Grahm

Born
September 26, 1897 · home in Fort Morgan, Morgan County, Colorado
Died
November 1, 1969 · Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington
Married
August 26, 1922, at a Protestant Episcopal Church in Tacoma, WA

Photos

Ed Loomis Beulah Ed Lobb Jean Patricia.
Ed Loomis Beulah Ed Lobb Jean Patricia.
Beulah Portrait.
Beulah Portrait.
Beulah Portrait Jean House.
Beulah Portrait Jean House.
Hawthorne House Dining Room.
Hawthorne House Dining Room.
Ed Jean Beulah Ed Patricia at 31st Ave.
Ed Jean Beulah Ed Patricia at 31st Ave.
Ed Loomis Ed Lobb and Beulah.
Ed Loomis Ed Lobb and Beulah.
Early Christmas.
Early Christmas.
Patricia Ed and Beulah.
Patricia Ed and Beulah.
Hawthorne House Bedroom.
Hawthorne House Bedroom.
Ed Beulah and Grandson Ed Lobb.
Ed Beulah and Grandson Ed Lobb.
Christmas 1966 at 31st.
Christmas 1966 at 31st.
Hawthrone House.
Hawthrone House.
Hawthorne House Tacoma.
Hawthorne House Tacoma.
Hawthrone House Living Room.
Hawthrone House Living Room.
Ethel Grahm at Beulahs House on Hawthorne.
Ethel Grahm at Beulahs House on Hawthorne.
Beulah and Ed 47th Anniversary.
Beulah and Ed 47th Anniversary.

Family

Children

Siblings

In brief

Born September 26, 1897 in home in Fort Morgan, Morgan County, Colorado. She married August 26, 1922, at a Protestant Episcopal Church in Tacoma, WA and worked as school teacher. She died November 1, 1969 in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington.

  • Went to grade school in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

Life story

A Colorado Girlhood

Beulah Grahm was born on September 26, 1897, at home in Fort Morgan, Morgan County, Colorado. She trained as a teacher at the State Normal School in Bellingham, Washington (graduating in 1922 with additional coursework at the College of Puget Sound) before marrying Edward Byron Loomis at the Church of the Holy Communion in Tacoma on August 26, 1922.

Home, Garden, and Grandchildren

Beulah's granddaughter Jean remembered her as “a quiet artistic woman who liked harmony and beauty around her,” devoted to gardening, baking, and handicrafts — she taught Jean to knit and passed down her banana bread recipe, and was an early enthusiast of organic gardening, juicing her own carrots and burying fish for fertilizer in her cornfield. She was active for years in the Tillers & Toilers Garden Club of Tacoma and, after Edward's retirement, kept detailed travel journals of their trips through the American Southwest, Hawaii, and the Caribbean. Beulah died in Tacoma on November 1, 1969; her garden club planted a pink flowering dogwood in her memory.

At a glance

Work
School Teacher
Lived
Fort Morgan, Morgan County, Colorado · Fox Island, Pierce County, Washington · Sylvan, Fox Island, Pierce County, Washington
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  47. Photograph of Bryce Canyon annotated by Beulah Loomis, October 1949; privately held by Catherine Leineweber, Portland, Oregon, 2021.
  48. Photograph of Beulah’s Giant Lilies annotated by Beulah Loomis, April 1967; privately held by Catherine Leineweber, Portland, Oregon, 2021.
  49. Photograph of Beulah with Calla Lilies annotated by Beulah Loomis, April 1967; privately held by Catherine Leineweber, Portland, Oregon, 2021.
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