CALHOUN, GA – Charlie Lowery Beasley, 73, passed away on Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at Gordon Healthcare. He was born in Red Bay, Al. on May 26, 1943 to the late Joseph Wheeler and Bernice Lowery Beasley. He was a member of Freedom Baptist Church. He graduated from Florence State College and was an expert in design and manufacturing of textiles. He traveled to China and India where he served as a textile consultant. He worked at various textile mills in the Gordon County area and Micro Fibre in Jasper, Ga.
Funeral services were held Thursday, December 29, at 5 p.m. in Calhoun, Ga. and graveside services were held Friday, December 30, at 3 p.m. at Red Bay City Cemetery, Red Bay, Al. Burial was in Red Bay City Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife – Merline Beasley and their children – Alan, Greg and his wife Ranettia, Timothy Newton and his fiance’ Kim of Newnan, Sherry Turvey and her husband Brad of McDonough; grandchildren – Samuel Beasley and his wife, Ana, Cody Beasley, Lindy Beasley and Jacob Arp; great-granddaughters – Mikayla Grace Beasley and Presley Kate Arp; brothers – Joe Beasley and his wife Sandra and Tommy Beasley and his wife Jane of Red Bay, Al. Also left to honor and cherish Charlie’s memories are his fishing buddies, numerous nieces and nephews, brother and sister-in-law and the Freedom Baptist Church family.In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to the Freedom Baptist Church Building Fund.
