Obituaries

Robbie Beene, 90, Narrows Dam electrician, April 30 May 2, 2008 - No reporter cited

Robbie Hugh Beene, 90, of Nashville, died Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at a Nashville hospital.

He was born Nov. 14, 1917 at Lockesburg, the son of the late Charles Edwin and Ida Belle Waters Beene.

He was a member of Sunset Church of Christ and NARFE. A 1935 graduate of Nashville High School, he was a telegraph operator for Western Union. During WWII he worked at an ordinance plant in Minden, La. During the construction of Narrows Dam, he was the electrical foreman, and later became the electrician at Narrows Power Plant for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which was his occupation until he retired in 1979. He was an active servant to many in the community.

He was preceded in death by one brother, Rufus E. Beene.

Mr. Beene is survived by his wife, Thressa Beene of Nashville; two sons, Billy Beene and wife, Peggy, of Huntsville, Ala., and Eddie Beene and wife, Vickie, of Nashville; two daughters, Betty Johnson of Nashville and Bobby Ponder of Weatherford, Texas; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and many friends and relatives.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Sat., May 3, at Latimer Funeral Home Chapel, with David Williams and Robert Peek officiating.

Burial will be in Nashville Cemetery, under the direction of Latimer Funeral Home, Nashville.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home Friday from 6-8 p.m.

Memorials may be made to Sunset Church of Christ or Howard Memorial Hospital Foundation.

You may send an online sympathy message at http://www.latimerfuneralhome.com.

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