Longtime Tupelo Attorney and devoted civic and church leader, William Michael “Bill” Beasley, Sr. died unexpectedly from an apparent pulmonary embolism at his home. Bill was the son of the late William Moore Beasley and Joyce Hall Beasley, who survives. Bill was the husband of Linda Jobe Beasley, was Dad to Will, Adam and Megan and brother to Nancy and Bob and their families. He received both his Undergraduate and Law Degrees from the University of Mississippi, and later a Master’s Degree in Theology from Loyola University. A member for many years of the First United Methodist Church in Tupelo, Bill was a deeply spiritual man whose intellect and depth of study, contemplation and reasoning on things spiritual set him as a man of universal strength and purpose. A practicing lawyer for over 40 years, Bill’s character and embodiment of the highest ideals of the law and civility set him apart in the practice of law.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time pending the arrival of out of town relatives and family members with Covid coming out of quarantine. Holland Funeral Directors-Tupelo (662 840 5000) will announce arrangements when made.
