Robert Leonard Beecroft was born in Douglas, Arizona on June 13, 1930, to Ruth Huish Beecroft and Robert Irl Beecroft. He died of pancreatic cancer at his home in San Diego, California, on November 24, 2000.
After growing up in Douglas he moved with his family to Provo, Utah, where he attended Brigham Young University, graduating in
political science. He fulfilled an LDS mission to Mexico. He was awarded a Root-Tilden scholarship for the law school at New York University and graduated with a J.D. in 1957. He married Emma Lou Warren of Cedar City, Utah, in the Manti LDS Temple during 1956.
Robert taught law for one year at Boalt Hall of the University of California, Berkeley. He and Emma Lou then located in San Diego, where he practiced law for a short period of time. He then became a successful land
developer and business manager in the San Diego area.
He was active in the LDS Church and held many teaching and leadership positions. He was President of the Spanish Branch in San Diego, and he and his wife rendered significant service to the Spanish Branch as well as many contributions to the Latin America missionary work during his later years.
Robert's survivors include: his wife, Emma Lou; his daughter, Robyn Ryskamp; and sons Stephen, Warren, Regan and Collin Beecroft; together with his brothers, David, Mark, James, William and Joseph Beecroft; and sisters, Lenore Gordon, Sandra Allen and Vivien Robison.
A funeral will be held in San Diego on Nov. 29 at the family's LDS chapel. Memorial services also in memory of our husband,
father, brother and friend will be held on Sat., Dec. 2, 2000, at 11 a.m., in the Berg Drawing Room Chapel, 185 East Center, Provo, Utah. Interment, East Lawn Memorial Hills.
We shall miss you, Robert, your love, your laughter, your advice, your friendship, your testimony and your open and caring ways. We are happy to have known you and to have been part of your life.