Photo courtesy of Don Wolf
On Monday morning, Doug Beattie presented the new year’s financial report to the Kiwanis Club of Los Gatos Board of Directors as usual. Early Wednesday morning, he suffered some kind of a heart attack and was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he died on Friday, January 13, leaving behind his wife, Martha, and her daughter Kathryn. He was 72.
Doug Beattie (November 9, 1939 – January 13, 2012)
Doug first joined the Los Gatos Kiwanis in August 1966. An irrepressible Cardinals fan, I always assumed that he had attended Stanford. He worked with optics and cameras in Los Gatos in the 1970s. (You don’t know how little you know about your friends until they suddenly pass.) He re-joined the Kiwanis club in May 1993, and he served ably as the club’s treasurer for most of the subsequent years. In this role, Doug attended monthly board meetings, wrote scholarship checks to worthy students, and handled the accounting for the annual Fiesta de Artes event each August.
Doug provided a calm, steady voice and reliably sound advice to his friends, and he had a great sense of humor and a wry wit. He will be sorely missed.
A memorial for Doug was held Tuesday, January 17, at 1 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church of Los Gatos, 16575 Shannon Road.
