Eileen C. Beatty

Eileen C. Beatty passed away on August 13, 2025 at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh. She was 85.

Lee was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on January 30, 1940, the daughter of William and Agnes (Fenlon) Fogarty. She grew up in Providence and was a graduate of Saint Francis Xavier Academy and Rhode Island College. Lee met her husband, Robert Beatty, in 1964 when they were volunteers for (different) presidential election campaigns; they celebrated their 60th anniversary this June.

Lee was an educator for over thirty years, working primarily in preschools in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. After retirement, she and Bob moved to the Mount Washington Valley in New Hampshire, where they had spent their honeymoon. Lee enjoyed watching and playing golf (though she would be the first to admit she wasn’t very good at it), bridge, quilting and other crafts, and rooting for the New England Patriots. She was a voracious reader and never passed up an opportunity to visit a library or bookstore.

She is survived by her husband, Bob, son Joshua and daughter-in-law Ellen Adams, and many friends in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and at Lake Forest in Plattsburgh. Funeral services will be held at Brown Funeral Home on September 4 at 10:30, with interment to follow at Magdala Solitude Cemetery in Morrisonville.