A lifetime educator passed away on Saturday, May 31, 2014 in St. Louis, MO. Mr. Earl C. Beeks was born to Lewis and Virgie Lee Beeks on July 11, 1926 in St. Louis, MO.

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Bob Beeks, who died last week at age 85, was a decorated St. Louis police officer. When he took off his gun and badge, he slipped on knickers and a striped shirt and moonlighted on weekends at ...