Warren I. Beckwith

Warren I. BeckwithWarren I. Beckwith died on Saturday, August 24, at Newport Hospital in Newport, RI after a brief battle with pneumonia. He was most recently a resident of Grand Islander Nursing Home in Middletown, RI. He previously had lived in Mountain Home, AR, before that in Mesa, AZ, and earlier for many years in Glen Ridge, NJ.Warren was born in Little Falls, NJ, son of George Walton Beckwith and Carolyn Louise Elizabeth Umstaedter. He was preceded in death by his parents, by his 5 brothers: Walt, Kenny, Cliff, Art and Rob, and by his two wives: the former Alice Mary Ames of Montclair, NJ, wife from 1942 until her death in 1967, and the former Louise Phillips Brissie, originally from Oxford, PA and his wife from 1968 until her death in March of 2013.Warren graduated from Montclair, NJ, High School, and, in 1942, from Rutgers University with a B.S. in mathematics, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was also a long-time member of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity (and The 1994 Alpha Chi Rho 'Man of the Year'). The day after graduating from Rutgers Warren began work in the actuarial department at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York City. When he retired in 1982, he was Senior Vice-President of Group Insurance and Pensions.Survivors include: son Warren Beckwith, Jr. and wife, Barbara, of Wakefield, Rhode Island, and their daughters Laura and Melissa and Melissa's husband, Brett, and their daughters, Millie and Jane; son Eric Beckwith and wife, Joan, of Merion Station, Pennsylvania, and their children Rahman Bibi and Noor; stepdaughter: Pamela Brissie Joswick and husband, Frank, of Bayfield, Colorado, and their children Nick and Sarah, and Sarah's husband, Erik; stepdaughter Carol Brissie Martin and husband, Dirk, of Mountain Home, Arkansas; stepson Eugene F. Brissie, Jr. and wife, Lisa, of New Canaan, Connecticut, and their two daughters, Anna and Elizabeth.Services will be held in Oxford, Pennsylvania at the Oxford Cemetery on Thursday, August 29, at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, friends may make contributions in Mr. Beckwith's name to the American Macular Degeneration Foundation: http://www.macular.org/howhelp.html#memgift Cemetery Details Oxford Cemetery Oxford, PA,