Kenneth Jay Beckwith
1939 — 2023
Kenneth Jay Beckwith, our beloved father, grandfather, and brother passed away at his daughter's home in Salt Lake City Utah on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. He was 84 years old. Ken was a mechanic, millwright welder, and accomplished pilot. He retired as the maintenance supervisor of the PP&L coal-fired power plants west of the Mississippi in 1990. He returned to school and earned a Certificate of Higher Education in Jet Aircraft Maintenance and got a job repairing jet engines. He became an expert in ballistics and was a lifetime athlete. He was preceded in death by his parents, Richard Harrison Beckwith and Rosa Belle Blair; his Wife, Patricia Mae Beckwith; his brothers David...