Frank Shouse Beal of Georgetown, South Carolina died peacefully at home August 31, 2006. Mr. Beal was born June 7, 1927 in Jacksonville, Florida to Harold Francis and Claire Shouse Beal, and was the fifth of their six children. He was married to Anne Eileen ("Nancy") McNulty of Glencoe, Illinois for 53 years and they have four children and 11 grandchildren. Mr. Beal graduated from Bolles Military Academy in Jacksonville where he played tackle on the football team. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1944 at age 17. He attended St. Louis University and Georgetown University before returning to Jacksonville to work with his father and brothers in the family's wholesale lumber business. In the late 1940's, they purchased and logged several tracts of old growth cypress and hardwood timber in the Santee River delta and Mr. Beal came to South Carolina with his brother Harold to supervise that venture. In those days before diesel skidders, the brothers used steam locomotives and teams of mules to haul the logs to ground mills which were built on site. In the early 1950's, Harold and Frank built a bandmill in Andrews, South Carolina known as Santee Pine which they operated until 1975. Mr. Beal and his family moved to Georgetown in 1955. In 1980, Mr. Beal founded Beal Lumber Company and was joined by his son, Frank, Jr. in 1983. In 1998 they built a hardwood bandmill in Little Mountain, South Carolina which Frank Jr. manages today. Mr. Beal was a staunch conservative who was very active in the 1960's in the formation and development of the modern Republican Party in South Carolina. He served as Georgetown County Committeeman to the statewide Republican Party during these formative years for the party when South Carolina was essentially a one party state. Mr. Beal was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed fishing, boating and hunting. He was a member of The Florida Yacht Club and The Georgetown Cotillion Club. Mr. Beal was predeceased by his mother and father, his sisters Emmeline (Mrs. F. Huston McIlvain) of New Town Square, PA, and Mary (Mrs. Glenn S. Williamson) of Deland, Fl and brothers Harold F. Beal, Jr. of Pawley's Island, SC and William H. Beal of Jacksonville. Mr. Beal was devoted to his family and his faith. He is survived by his wife Nancy, son Frank S. Jr., and his wife Elizabeth M. of Columbia, South Carolina; daughter Karen Angela and her husband Lawrence H. Chewning, III, of Clinton, North Carolina; son Michael McNulty and his wife Elizabeth J. of Columbia, South Carolina; and daughter Anne Eileen and her husband Wm. David Starnes of Georgetown, South Carolina. Mr. Beal is also survived by 11 grandchildren who affectionately knew him as "Churchman", "Boat", and "Granddaddy" and will miss him very much: L. Harris Chewning, IV, Kathleen G. Chewning, Claire M. Chewning, Frank S. Beal, III, Callie E. Beal, Pinkney V. Beal, Michael M. Beal, Jr., Wm. Reese Starnes III, Myles M. Starnes, J. Duffy Beal, and A. Eileen Starnes. Mr. Beal is also survived by his sister, Elizabeth (Mrs. Frederick H. Garner) of Banner Elk, North Carolina. A visitation and celebration of the life of Frank Shouse Beal will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. David Starnes, 935 Cuttino Street, Georgetown, from 5:00 until 7:00 o'clock p.m. on Sunday, September 3, 2006. A funeral mass will be held at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on Monday, September 4, 2006 at Saint Mary Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Church, Georgetown, South Carolina. Interment will be at Oak Lawn Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida, on Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 11:00 o'clock a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be sent to Saint Mary Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Church, 317 Broad Street, Georgetown, South Carolina 29440; Tidelands Community Hospice, 2591 N. Fraser Street, Georgetown, South Carolina, 29440; or the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 100902, Columbia, South Carolina 29290-9002. The Georgetown Chapel of Mayer Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Funeral Home: Georgetown Chapel of Mayer Funeral Home 222 Saint James Street Georgetown, SC US 29440