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George Beck



A.k.a. George Beck

George Beck, Songwriter: This taken from the Sitka, AK newspaper in 1981: Funeral Services for George Beck, 86, a songwriter and educator, will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Pioneer Home Chapel. Beck, a longtime Sitkan, died Saturday at the Pioneer Home. Rev. Dan Amerson of Sitka Methodist Church will officiate. Burial will follow in the Sitka National Cemetery, and a reception will be held afterward at the Woman's Club. Beck was born Sept. 29, 1895, in Jacksonville, Ore. He first came to Alaska in 1914 on a summer trip with his father. After serving overseas in George Beck 1957 to 1958, then came to Sitka to work as boys counselor at France in the U.S. Army during Sheldon Jackson Junior College Anchorage Checking Into Hosting Miss U.S.A. Show World War I, he returned to Alaska. He worked at the Chichagof Mine as the postmaster until returning to Oregon to attend college. Beck received his bachelor of arts degree from Willamette Universitv in 1926 and his master's '.rom the University of Oregon in 1936. He Smith." from 1958 to 1959. He worked for some time for Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He was also a musician and songwriter. He wrote "The Bells of Sitka," as well as the Ketchikan High School school song, and several ballads, including "Old Jim Dailey" and "Soapy Tide Tables"

     
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