Thursday, October 11, 2007
Beatrice Tinney Bellomy Funeral Service Set for Oct. 13, 10 a.m. at Shady Grove Cemetery
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Funeral services for our beloved Mary Beatrice Tinney Bellomy are set for Saturday, October 13, 10:00 a.m., at Shady Grove Cemetery, with Rev. Duncan Graham officiating. Rev. Graham is Pastor of Tinney Chapel UMC, where Beatrice was baptized as a young woman.
The wonderful black & white photos at the top of this posting are provided by Joann Adair, daughter of Mary Lou Newton Carey, who was a great friend and loyal cousin of Beatrice Tinney. These photos present Beatrice in all her youthful zest, energy and great beauty. Like the sweet memories of her loving and productive life--these images will never die.
Top color photo: Mary Beatrice Tinney Bellomy.
Bottom color photo: Beatrice, with her son Walter & her husband Kenneth Bellomy during the late 1980s.
News of the death of Beatrice Tinney Bellomy arrived Sept. 19, 2007, via Tinney Chapel Pastor, Rev. Duncan Graham. He was notified by Beaty Funeral Home, in Winnsboro, that Beatrice would be cremated, and that the family has arranged for a graveside memorial service at Shady Grove Cemetery on Oct. 13 at 10:00 a.m. with Pastor Graham officiating.
As many of those on active email lists for both the Tinney Family Reunion Event and Tinney Chapel UMC are aware, Beatrice has been in declining health for some time, and lived with her son, Walter Bellomy, in Austin. The color photos above were made in the late 1980s when she was still in good health.
Mary Beatrice Tinney was born Sept. 26, 1924, in the Stout Community, to Charles Lewis Tinney Sr. and Anna Eliza Mills Tinney. Her father, Charles Lewis Tinney, came to Texas at three years of age, when his parents, Ambrose Tinney and Mary Belinda Bellomy Tinney came to Texas, from Alabama, in 1886. Beatrice married Kenneth Bellomy on April 20, 1946, in Winnsboro. For many years, they lived in Dallas, where their son, Walter Lewis Bellomy, was born on June 22, 1949.
Beatrice was the author of "Walking Through The Woods With My Papa," published as Chapter 5 in Going To The Chapel, a prize-winning history, subtitled Stories of the Founding Family And the Folks Who Filled the Pews Of Tinney's Chapel United Methodist Church During the Twentieth Century, by Arvinell Newton McClaren.
In the late 1980s, Beatrice and Kenneth began an ambitious journey they called "The Tinney Project," an effort to build on the vast genealogical research compiled over many years by Ella Miller Newton, mother of Arvinell. During this period, they owned a cabin on FM 312 on Beatrice's home place (where she used to walk through the woods with her papa), and often spent weekends there, attending Tinney Chapel UMC on a fairly regular basis. Ronny Ellison remembers that period well, and recalls Beatrice & Kenneth usually sitting in the pew immediately in front of him. Sadly, the health of both Beatrice and Kenneth soon began to fail, and their Tinney Project files were eventually transferred to Arvinell. After Kenneth's death, Beatrice lived with their son Walter in Austin until her death on September 2.
The group color photo above shows Beatrice, Walter and Kenneth during one of several lunch meetings at Cafe Mexico in Richardson, Texas, with Beatrice's first cousin, Joe Dan Boyd, while the three Bellomys were initiating The Tinney Project during the late 1980s. Joe Dan made both color photos.
