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Alberta Beatrice (Bea), nee Lane, 81, wife, mother, grandmothers, sister, aunt, great-aunt, cousin, and friend passed away at peace on Wednesday, March 29, 2000. Bea was born and raised in Hagerman, New Mexico and had been a resident of the greater Albuquerque for 53 years. She is survived by her husband of 56 years, Frederick A. Leckman of Sandia Park, New Mexico; her daughter, Helene Louise Santos of South Wonston, United Kingdom and Raleigh, North Carolina; her sons, Arnold Lane Leckman of Albuquerque and James Frederick Leckman of Hamden, Connecticut. She was the beloved grandmother to Emily, Phillip, Peter, Daniel, Anna, and Andrew and honored mother-in-law to Marilyn Hildner Leckman, Hannah Hone Leckman and Lucinio Santos. She leaves behind her two younger sister, Lila Elinor Roger of Albuquerque and Blanche Catherine Tompkins of San Bernardino, California. She was a dear aunt to 19 nephews and nieces. A devoted friend, Bea was long time member of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church where she served as a deaconess, a Sunday School teacher, and more recently, a member of the Stephen's Ministry. Bea was a devoted teacher of the first grade at Comanche Elementary School for more than a decade. She will be remembered for her volunteer service as a Den Mother, Brownie Troop and Girl Scout leader in the Northeast Heights and the East San Jose community. A graduate of Park College in Parkville, Missouri, Bea was active in the American Association of University Women where she helped to establish the standards for preschool programs in Albuquerque. She was a reading tutor and taught in a GED program at Sandia Base. She was instrumental in the establishment of the Andrew Newton Tompson Memorial Scholarship Fund at Highland High School. She also was active in the Friendship Force from its inception in Albuquerque. An avid correspondent and world traveler, her hobbies including knitting Christmas stockings for her grandchildren, gardening, swimming with the"Lunch Bunch", entertaining, learning new computer skills, reading and writing free verse. Mrs. Leckman was preceded in death by her parents, Alberta Johnson Lane and Edwin Eddy Lane, longtime residents of Hagerman and Chaves County; her two older siblings, Edwin E. Lane, and Evelyn Lane Williams; her nephew, Stephen Roger, and by an American Friends Field Service student from Newlands Lodge, South Africa, Andrew Mark Newton Tompson, who spent a year with the Leckman family in the early 1960s. A Memorial Service will be held at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle SE, on Friday, April 14, 2000 at 2:00 p.m. Cremation has taken place. The family has asked that any donations in her memory should be directed to the elevator fund at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle SE, 87016, (203-265-7628). They also request that no flowers be sent. The family also wishes to thank the nursing staff and other caring professionals and volunteers at the Intensive Care Unit and the Hospice Unit at Kaseman Presbyterian Hospital. French Mortuary, 1111 University Blvd. NE.
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