Jan Beck, 81, passed away peacefully at Freedom Pointe, The Villages, FL on 2-22-26. She was born in Watertown, NY to her parents, Jack and June Buchanan Beck.
She graduated from Lyme Central School in Chaumont, NY and from SUNY Geneseo with a MA in Education. Jan moved to The Villages in 2009 from Rochester, NY, having retired from a 33-year career as an elementary school librarian in the Fairport, NY, Central School System. Jan was an avid reader, played Mar-Jong, and golf, once scoring a hole-in-one. She leaves behind several close friends in The Villages, a brother, William (Bill) Beck, and a sister, Peggy Bennett.
Her care and arrangements have been entrusted to Baldwin Brothers Funeral and Cremation Society and her remains will be buried in the family plot near Watertown, NY. Donations in Jan’s memory may be made to the Parkinsons Foundation or the Lyme Central School Scholarship Fund, % The Northern New York Community Foundation, 131 Washington St., Watertown, NY 13601 ([email protected]).