Beulah Gloria Strout

Beulah Gloria Strout (nee Edwards) passed, age 95 years, Thursday morning September 5, 2024. She had been a long resident of Santa Barbara having relocated here from Michigan with her husband Thomas Strout and two sons, Daniel and David, for the aerospace boom in the early sixties. She was born and raised in Mechanic Falls, Maine where as schoolgirl she noted an upperclassman, Tom Strout. On his return from active service in WWII and in his second year of GI bill at University of Maine they married, aged 20 and 24. They remained an admired couple until Tom’s passing in 2018.

In Santa Barbara she was active as a Cub Scout den mother, and participant in Good Sheppard and later Trinity Lutheran Churches. She is remembered by a wealth of friends for her calm good sense, kindness and persimmon pudding (a family thing). Her sons are grateful for the generosity of her many life-time friends who made her days rewarding and blessed.