Louie Arthur “Lou” Beal went to be with Jesus and his beloved Sheila on December 15, 2025. He was 89.
He was born on June 19, 1936, to Robert “Bill” Beal and Cleora Clevenger Beal. Lou lived a full life shaped by work, family, and responsibility.
Lou shared his life with Sheila Kelleher Beal, his true love and constant companion. Their life together grew from ordinary days made meaningful. They chose each other through joy and hardship, raised a family, built a home, and created a shared history marked by loyalty, forgiveness, and deep affection. Together, they traveled, laughed, and found comfort in simply being side by side.
He was a proud father to Robert and his wife Elizabeth, Bridget and her husband David, and Joe and his wife Rosie. Lou loved his children’s friends and welcomed them as family. They were his kids, too.
His grandchildren brought him deep joy. Lou loved teaching them to ride horses, work a backhoe, and drive when they were six so they could play cops and robbers with him and Mema. Brayden, Dave, Barrett, Robbie, Claire, and Branson filled his years with pride and purpose. He welcomed and loved his step-grandchildren, Cere Kendrick and husband Cody and Travis Suggs, along with his step-great-grandchildren, Cora and Cole Kendrick. He also leaves behind his niece, Mary Kay and wife Val Simpso, nephew Don Yearin and wife Diane, and brother in law, Bart Kelleher and wife Kathy.
Lou carried a quiet faith. He trusted God in his own way and walked his path as a human man, imperfect and real.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Sheila, his brother, Robert, and his nephew, David Yearin. He leaves behind his children, their spouses, his grandchildren, his nephew, his nieces, his extended family, and his friends who will remember him with great love and affection.
The family will host a visitation from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm Thursday, December 18, 2025, at Stevens Funeral Home Chapel, 400 W. Pecan Street, in Coleman. A graveside funeral service will be at 10:00 a.m. Friday, December 19, 2025, at the Coleman City Cemetery Pavilion with Justin Smith, associate pastor at First Baptist Church, officiating. Services are entrusted to Stevens Funeral Home in Coleman.
The family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions be made to the Coleman Senior Center, P.O Box 785, Coleman, Texas 76834 or to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at www.stjude.org.
We invite you to share fond memories and words of comfort and condolence with the Beal family by signing the guestbook on Louie’s tribute page at www.stevensfuneralhome.com. Stevens Funeral Home is honored to serve the Beal family.
