was the eldest daugher of Arthur McIntyre and Amine (Strickland) Beymer, she had two sisters and two younger brothers. Her father was in the lumber and hardware business in Corning and later was appointed Postmaster. After the death of his first wife he remarried and relocated to Carthage, Missouri where he built up a large factory manufacturing wire spring beds. Eleven years later he sold his business and moved to Rupert, Idaho but found the altitude too high and moved to Seattle. He died in 1934 two months short of age 90 and is buried in Corning.