Betty D. Beer, 88, of Ashland, died Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 at North Central Ohio Hospice in Ashland. Born Jan. 2, 1921 in Licking County, she was the daughter of Talmage S. and Helen (Hatch) Linn. On Oct. 30, 1946, she married Benjamin A. Beer and he died March 27, 1999.

Betty worked outside the home most of her life. She had been employed at Leibfarth's Jewelry, Union Malleable, A.L. Garber, and retired from the Ohio Department of Transportation. She was a member of the Merry Gardeners Club and the Apostolic Christian Church on Illinois Ave., Mansfield, Ohio.

Many hours were spent riding horses in her youth and she was fond of working in the flowerbeds and gardening.

She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Robert T. and Debra Ann Beer of Bluffton; brother, Clifford D. Linn of Ashland; and grandchildren, David B. (Elizabeth Ann) Beer of Arlington, Virginia, and Elizabeth A. (Robert) Gordon-Hancock of Essex, United Kingdom.

Wappner Funeral Directors, 98 S. Diamond Street, Mansfield, handled the arrangements.

Funeral services were Saturday, Nov. 28, at the Illinois Ave. Apostolic Christian Church, Mansfield, conducted by the Apostolic Christian Church. Burial was in Lantz Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of North Central Ohio.