Clare Corkery Beall died Nov. 10, 2003, in San Diego, Calif., where she had been living since April 2002. She was 84 years old.

She was born on Sept. 10, 1919, to Alice K. and William H. Corkery in Aberdeen, Wash. Her father was the owner and president of the Donovan-Corkery Logging Company Inc. He later became president of the National Bank of Commerce in Seattle.

The family moved to the Capital Hill area of Seattle in 1928.

Summers were spent in the family beach home on the Burton peninsula of Vashon Island. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1941.

Mrs. Beall met her future husband, George Ferguson Beall (Fergie), on the pier at Dockton Park on Vashon. They were married on July 27, 1942, in Shreveport, La., where Lt. Beall was attending the U.S. Army Air Corp flight school. Not to be left behind, she also got her own pilots’ license during the war.

At the end of World War II she and then Major Beall returned to Vashon where she raised their three children while he worked with his father and two brothers in the Beall Greenhouse Company, his responsibility being the Orchid Division. She traveled with her husband searching for orchids in the jungles of South America in addition to traveling with him throughout the rest of the world.

While raising her children, Mrs. Beall was active in the community of Vashon. She and Margaret Philbrick started the Vashon Island Ski School in the early 1960s. (Starting the ski school which bused the kids to the slopes allowed her to get out of listening to her own kids complain about who got to sit in the front seat on the long drives in the snow.) As her children got older she became a real estate broker working for Coldwell Banker and Windermere Realty companies.

After the death of her husband in 1976, she moved to West Seattle to continue work as a real estate broker, but she maintained her close ties to Vashon. Upon retirement she became a docent at the Museum of Flight in Seattle and spent many hours helping to restore a World War Two bomber, a Boeing B-17.

Survivors include her daughter Julie Beall Huerta, of San Diego, Calif., her sons Richard Beall of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Peter Beall of Sausalito, Calif. and her sister Mavis Kallsen of Tacoma, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Memorials suggested to the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association, P.O. Box 723, Vashon or the Museum of Flight, 9404 E. Marginal Way S., Seattle 98108.