Audrey Beggs Obituary

Audrey Dell Fraser Beggs April 5, 1930 - Aug. 2, 2013 Former Bay Area Resident Audrey Dell Fraser Beggs, born in Alameda, CA on April 5, 1930, passed away on Aug. 2, 2013 in Atlanta. She taught Red Cross swimming lessons and held memberships in the Martindale Extension Homemakers Club and PEO Chapter I. At St. James United Methodist Church in Little Rock, she participated in the Women's Joy Circle, adult choir, knitted prayer shawl, and Forum Sunday School classes. Audrey was an Air Force spouse who was preceded in death by her husband, Colonel Conrad L. Beggs on July 13, 2012. She left this world listening to her beloved Frank Sinatra. Suffering from chronic arthritis and glaucoma, Audrey was a strong proponent for medicinal marijuana. She is survived by her brother, Whitney Fraser; brother-in-law, Lindbergh Beggs; her four children and their respective spouses, Martin and Melissa Beggs, Marjorie Beggs and Russell Altizer, Marck Beggs and Carly Cate and Marla and Satish Nargundkar; six grandchildren, Collin, Ian (and wife, Cheyanne), Evan (and wife, Whitney), and Elizabeth Beggs, Alex and Zack Altizer, and Nikhil Nargundkar; and nine great-grandchildren, Ailsa and Liadan Beggs, Michael, Josh, Lily, and Nathan Beggs, Joseph, Aubrey, and Waylon Beggs, and a veritable cornucopia of cousins and their assorted offspring. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, August 9th at St. James United Methodist Church in Little Rock. Mrs. Beggs' ashes will be interred with her husband's at the Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock. Donations in Audrey's behalf should be made to St. James United Methodist Church, 321 Pleasant Valley Dr, Little Rock, AR 72212, or the Pulaski County Humane Society, 14600 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, AR 72210. Arrangements by Little Rock Funeral Home, (501) 224-2200. Mrs. Beggs' online guestbook may be signed at www.littlerockfuneralhome.com.