Beloved Clallam County court reporter Edith “Eddie” Beck has passed away. Eddie was born in 1937 in Vallejo, California. After a divorce, Eddie took night classes to become a court reporter.
She took a job (her first?) working judge Tyler Moffett in the Clallam County Superior Court. She continued to work as the court reporter for Judges Grant Meiner and George Wood in Courtroom 1. After retiring from her service with the Superior Court, Eddie worked as a private stenographer for many lawyers on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Eddie contributed to her community in many ways. She was a member of the Clallam County Jet Set Soroptomist club, hosted foreign students attending Peninsula College, and tirelessly supporting our local Duck Derby. She was well known for generously hosting people at her warm home.
Eddie is survived by three children and, so far, three grandchildren. Eddie survived her long term partner Stanley Feldman.
Eddie was Judge Meiner’s reporter and present when he administered my oath of attorney in 1989. I’ve known few people as professional and kind as Eddie Beck. In the many, many cases where Eddie was my stenographer, she never once, even in cases involving difficult human behavior, raised an eyebrow or uttered a judgmental or unkind word. I’d say she was one of the people who helped teach me the meaning of grace.
Mark Baumann