VERNA BEATTIE MCGOEY
FLIGHT ATTENDANT
GSW


Verna P. Beattie McGoey, 58 
BUXTON — Verna Pauline Beattie McGoey, 58, died Aug. 11, 2000, at her home after a long illness with cancer. 
She was born in Houlton, a daughter of Lawrence B. and Cecilia Gagnon Beattie, and attended elementary school in Patten. 
In 1955, she moved to Portland, where she graduated from Saint Dominic's Grammar School and, in 1960, Cathedral High School. 
She moved to Minneapolis and graduated from McConnell Airline School.
In 1961 she was hired by Central Airlines in Fort Worth, Texas, as an airline stewardess. 
She worked for Central Airlines for three years and met her husband, Henry G. McGoey, a pilot. 
They were married Oct. 12, 1963. 
After resigning from Central Airlines, she graduated from Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Mo., 
with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. 
She taught second and third grade at Howard Wilson Elementary School in Leavenworth, Kansas, from 1971 to 1974. 
She returned to Dallas with her husband in 1976 and in 1979, she and her husband retired and settled in Rockport, Texas.
In 1994, she was diagnosed with cancer and returned to Portland and was treated at Mercy Hospital. 
She lived in Buxton for three years. 
Surviving are her husband of Buxton; three stepchildren, Patrick S. McGoey of Cameron Park, Calif., 
Kathleen Ann Elsten of Draper, Utah, and Karen L. Noel of Salt Lake City; 
three brothers, Lawrence Beattie and David Beattie, both of Portland, and Paul Beattie of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; 
and three sisters, Marie O'Meara of Minneapolis, Lorraine Beattie of Portland and Joan Keene of Brunswick.
A memorial service will be announced at a later date.
-Cumberland County, Maine Obituaries
(5/29/06)

Posted at the FL Club:
Does anybody remember Verna Beattie?
She was a CN flight attendant 1961 - 64.
I found her obituary on the internet.
Verna married CN/FL pilot Henry McGoey in 1963.
He left FL in the late 70s.
I cannot find her in the SSDI.
-Jake Lamkins
(5/29/06)