Jim Beabout, 71, of Plant City, died Sept. 29, 2015.
Mr. Beabout was born on Sept. 5, 1944. He was a member of First Church of God in Plant City, where he served as a board member and a head usher. He was stationed at MacDill Air Force in the 1960s and helped set up the personnel office in South Korea during the Pueblo Incident. He was the director of operations for C.D.I. Corp. Pizza Hut overseeing businesses in Florida, Illinois, Alabama and Alaska. He managed McDonald’s restaurants in Lakeland and Plant City, and was the owner/operator of a franchise of Jani-King from 1989 to 2009. He will be greatly missed. His character will live on in the hearts of the people who were blessed to know him.
He is survived by his wife, Anna; daughters, Shelley Jones (Dana), of Winter Haven, and Karin Foronda (Jim), of Cedar Hill, Texas; sister, Judy Hosier, of Terre Haute, Indiana; and grandchildren, Katie Jones and Corey Bealina.
Family and friends gathered at his home Sept. 4, for his birthday party and veteran’s pinning ceremony provided by LifePath Hospice.