The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, May 4, 1995                  TAG: 9505040327
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B8   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                     LENGTH: Short :   28 lines

ROBERT M. BECK

Robert M. Beck, 76, a retired U.S. Postal Service employee, died May 2, 1995, in a local hospital.

Mr. Beck was born in Baltimore and was Jewish. He was the widower of Sylvia Peltzman Beck. He was retired after 20 years and was a member of the National Association of Letter Carriers of New York and the Brooklyn Jewish Postal Workers Association. He did community service work as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels. Mr. Beck was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II.

Survivors include a daughter, Sharon Polzin of Pensacola, Fla.; two sons, Mallory Beck of Tampa, Fla., and Nelson Beck of Virginia Beach; three grandchildren, Sheri Vincennie of Jacksonville, Fla., Kerry Beck and Kevin Beck, both of Tampa, Fla.; a great-grandchild, Joseph Vincennie III of Jacksonville; and a niece, Nancy Woomer of Ayers, Mass.

A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Great Neck Chapel. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 8 p.m. today.

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