David Harold Bean, Sr.

April 29, 2020

David Harold Bean, Sr., beloved husband, father, and grandfather, “slipped the surly bonds of Earth” on Wednesday, April 29th, 2020, at the age of 91 years old, after a brief illness in Sarasota, Florida. He was preceded in death by his father, Harold Evans Bean, his mother, Belle Rose (Couch) Bean, and his older siblings Donald, Doris, Ruth, Elizabeth, and Marjorie. Our beloved father is survived by his devoted wife, Patricia Ann (Schwartz) Bean, his children Christopher, William, Wendy (Bean) Tannenbaum, and David Harold Bean, Jr., and their immediate families, including nine grandchildren. After military service during the Korean War, David used his G.I. Bill to further a Bean tradition of a long, continual line of Syracuse University graduates. He met his wife, Patricia, at a church youth group, and subsequently wed on September 21,1957; they were married over 62 years. A successful career in residential real estate sales and appraisal utilized David’s masterful salesmanship skills and strong empathy for his clients. His greatest personal strengths, which he instilled in his four children, were a strong work ethic and living a virtuous life. Syracuse University football and basketball were his main passions, along with a big heaping piece of chocolate cake a la mode! This military veteran will be interred at Sarasota National Cemetery in Florida; funeral plans are forthcoming. The surviving Bean family requests, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to further charitable giving and medical science.