Beulah Mary Gerot Tallman
December 6, 1919 - October 14, 2000

Beulah Tallman RIVERSIDE, Iowa #45;- Beulah Mary Gerot Tallman, 80, of Riverside, died Saturday, Oct. 14, 2000, at Latern Park Care Center. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2000, at the Sorden-Lewis Funeral Home in Riverside. The Rev. Robert Hoover will officiate. Visitation will be one hour prior to service Tuesday at the funeral home. Burial will be at the Riverside Public Cemetery. A luncheon will be served following the service at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Riverside. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to a memorial fund established at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be family and friends. Mrs. Tallman was born Dec. 6, 1919, in Waterville, the daughter of David and Mary Frye Russell. She married Orval W. Gerot and later married Paul O. Tallman. She was a homemaker and worked for the University of Iowa in housekeeping, Owens Brush of Iowa City, and later was an elderly care provider. Survivors include a daughter, Marilyn Bennett and her husband, Steven, of West Chester; a son, Ronald E. Gerot of Fort Dodge; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandchildren; a brother, Joseph Eugene Russell and his wife, Alta, of Joy, Ill.; a sister, Delores Russell of Davenport; two sisters-in-law; Angie Russell of Iowa City and Nancy Russell of Letts. She was preceded in death by her parents, David and Mary Russell, husbands, Orval and Paul, a daughter, Jeannine Musack, two brothers, David Russell Jr., and Gordon Russell Sr., a granddaughter; and a great-granddaughter.

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