Author: Gem City WebAdmin

Nancy Jo (Whaley) Beeman, age 72, of Dayton, Ohio, passed away Monday, October 26, 2020, with her family by her side. She was born to the late Curtis and M. Lorean Whaley, November 11, 1947 in Dayton, Ohio.

Nancy is survived by her three children, Duane Edward Beeman, Jonathan Lee Beeman (Gail), and Melissa Ann (Beeman) Wilhelm; great grandchildren, Scott Johnson, Amber (Beeman) Hargis (Cody), Steven Beeman, Alex Wilhelm, Gabby Wilhelm, AJ Wilhelm and Kaiser Wilhelm; great-great grandchildren, Della Blake Hargis and Melody Beeman; and brother, John Whaley (Vickie).

Nancy was a 1966 graduate of Patterson High School. She retired from Kettering Hospital. Nancy was a long-time member of Gem City Dog Obedience Club, joining in 1994 and serving on the board for several years as both Director of Obedience and Director of Conformation. Nancy was a UKC Conformation Judge, and enjoyed breeding and showing Shih Tzu in conformation, obedience, and agility. Later, Nancy trained her own service dog as both a stability dog and a diabetic detection dog.

Family will receive friends Friday, October 30, 2020 from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the funeral service at 10:30 a.m. at Newcomer North Chapel, 4104 Needmore Rd., Dayton. Burial Dayton Memorial Park Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Gem City Dog Obedience Club at 1815 Trebein Rd., Xenia, Ohio 45385.

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Pete
05/30/2006 – 5/20/2020

Titles Earned:
CS-ATCH
CS-ATCH2
CA
CAA
BN
RA
RN
RATI
RATN
RATO

Pete loved to play and would do anything asked of him. I think what he loved most was making people feel loved. He was the perfect therapy dog and an awesome honorary pallbearer for my daddy’s funeral. My parents lost their dog the year before my father became ill. Pete was a blessing to have there to comfort my daddy during his last days. Pete would gently climb onto his bed and Daddy would smile and stroke him. In my opinion, there is no AKC, UKC, CPE etc. title that is of any higher value than the love of comfort of a dog.

Stacie & Craig Parks

Troy Rose, CGC

09/26/2008 – 06/27/2020

Titles Earned: CGC, top ten high scoring dogs at the Clark County Fair, Ohio State Fair Dog champion

Troy loved being around his girl and Junior Handler, Maelynn. Troy competes mostly in 4H events and was also in the top ten high scoring dogs at the Clark County Fair as well as a multiple Ohio State Fair Dog champion. Most of all, he loved his days of pet therapy and showing off his “pitty” smile.

Thomas Lenehan

05/12/1934 – 01/03/2020

Tom loved working at the land, mowing grass, cutting bushes and all of the fence repairs, He was happy to be a part of the Gem City family. He will be missed.

Rocky

TD-CH SKYEFIRE’S ROCKET DOG VCD-2 UD VER BN RM MX MXJ TD JH TKP CGCA VCX CCA
WCX W-FD/HTM W-FDX/MF W-PFDDM/MF

May 9 2014 to September 24 2019

Rocky says “Remember me this way”. He was certainly the best of the best.
His attitude stellar. His love unconditionally. Thanks for the beautiful
journey Rocky. We will meet on the other side.

Loved, more than words can say.

Submitted by : Pam Murn

Molly

U-CDX Tav-A-Mac Good Golly Ms Molly, CDX, RAE, SCA, SBN, W-FD/HTM, W-FD/MF, PFD/MF, TDI

06/06/2006 – 12/09/2020

UKC: CDX
AKC: CDX
AKC: RAE
UKC R03
AKC: SCA, SBN
WCFO: W-FD/ MF,W-FD/ HTM, W-PFD/ MF, W-TFD/ MF,
Therapy Dog International TDI

Molly loved working with me. She enjoyed Obedience, Rally, Tracking, Dock Diving,and Musical Freestyle. Due to her age she was unable to do some of the more demanding sports . I introduced Molly to Scent Work when she was 13 years old. She absolutely loved it and did well.
She also enjoyed her therapy work visiting cancer patients while they received their chemotherapy.
But her favorite task was being my loving companion for 11 years.

Jenna

01/30/2006 – 02/16/2019

Canine Good Citizen
CPE CATCH-2
CPE CATCH-6
Reserve High in Standard CPE Nationals 2015

Jenna was a rescue from SICSA. Jenna always just went with the flow. She never really learned how to play with the rest of the pack, but she would try. We called her an ant eater because she would wrestle one of the pack to the ground and then just pick at him/her like an ant eater.
Craig could get her to howl like a wolf, which was always entertaining.
She was quite an escape artist, that’s how we got her. i worked and worked on getting her to “watch me”. she would win a staring contest every time.

Submitted by – Stacie Parks

Watch Me Pull a Rabbit Outta My Hat

Moose

Sept. 12, 2006 to May 30, 2019

AKC: NA, NAJ, OA, NF, OF
CPE: CL2-S, CL2-H, CL2-F, CL2-R, CL3-S, CL3-R, CL3-F, CL3-H,
CL4-F, CL4-S, CL4-R, CL4-H
UKC: Rally Obedience 1, Senior Jumper
Ultimate Air Dogs: Senior Jumper

He was a Border Collie so of course he enjoyed doing most everything but undoubtedly agility and swimming were his favorites. Moose will be remembered for knocking over tire jumps, dropping bars and not wanting to come out of the pool ! See you at the bridge Mooser .

Submitted by – Marilyn Snyder