Vera Beauchamp

Vera Mae Todd Beauchamp, 89, of Wolf Point died Jan. 19, 2025.

She was born to Abner Todd and Elizabeth Blackdog in Wiota on Nov. 9, 1935. She was raised in Wiota on the family farm along with her siblings, Donald, Larry, Kenny, Kermit, Maynard, Palmer, Lyle, Douglas, Winona “Dodee” and Cathy Todd.

At a young age, she was taught how to care for the animals on the farm, feeding and watering the horses, cows, goats, ducks and chickens and also helping with the large garden and yearly haying. When she was younger, she couldn’t wait for school to get over so she could race home to saddle up her horse and go riding. She attended school in the Wiota-Nashua area and Glasgow.

She met and then married Roy Albert Beauchamp in Glasgow in November 1954.

She worked various jobs while living in Glasgow at the Glasgow dry cleaners and Buttreys bakery, all while raising their children, Albert “Chief,” Leroy, Abner, Elizabeth “Tonci,” Carolyn “Sue,” John and Wendy “Doy.”

After Roy retired from GAFB as a heavy equipment operator, the family moved to Wolf Point in 1978. Here, she found a job she loved and enjoyed at the Fort Peck Tribes’ elder feeding site. After the lead cook retired, she took on as head cook — a job she deeply loved and dedicated herself to, assisting and feeding the elderly. They commented daily on her delicious