06/10/2025
The Dal Paso Museum board pays tribute today to our friend and fellow
Board member, and former long time board president Judy Tyra Beam, who passed away last week. Mrs. Beam loved and served the museum so well and was a wonderful leader, mentor and friend to all! She led the charge for improvement, enhancement, and the promotion of the museum, local history and community inclusion. She truly had a dream of making Dawson county history come alive, be known and understood and she strived to draw in every age group and sector of the community who had a role in that history. She always wanted things to be fun and for fellowship to be the center of every museum effort. Her amazing creativity and vision was a driving force in her tenure and she loved what she was doing! She truly gave 100% to every project. She cared for each of us and made it her practice to check in on everyone, and to build friendships with all who crossed her path. She remained on our board member list, in gentle remembrance, even when her presence with us was no longer possible. Her influence and contributions to our community through all she did here and in other community groups will remain a valuable and lasting gift to Lamesa and Dawson county! We give thanks to her family for “sharing” her with Lamesa. We will long remember her joyful spirit. In loving memory, The Dal Paso Museum board, Delois Burkett, Sara Dodson, Theresa Estes, Judith Holladay, Esther Miers, Connie Nance, Jane Stone, Donna White, Vicki Whitman, and her dear friend and former long time board member MaryLane Peterson
