Beulah Dillard was born Beulah Mae McCowan on January 30,1932 in Marshall, Texas to the union of Mr. Roosevelt McCowan, Sr. and Ms. Tina Saphronia Chambers. She was the 5 th child of seven siblings. She was baptized at an early age at Pine Bluff Baptist Church. She attended Canaan Public Schools in Marshall, Texas. She worked in private homes for several families and Gables restaurant until 1971. She began attending Second Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with her children and attended there until her death. She married Perry Dillard and there were 9 children born to this union: Velma (Oscar) Johnson; Jennifer Brazzell, Alice (David) Gaut, Perry Earl (Sheril) Dillard, Jannie Dillard, Kenneth Dillard, Mary (Donald) Hurd, Pamela (Bruce) Dillard, and Brenda Dillard, all of Marshall, Texas; and Amber Washington of Mansfield, Texas. She was called home on Friday, February 16, 2018 in Marshall, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband, mother, father, brothers, sisters, grandsons, aunts and uncles. She leaves to mourn, one sister, Carrie McCowan of Dallas, Texas; ten (10) children; thirty-two (32) grandchildren; sixty (60) great- grandchildren; nineteen (19) great-great-grandchildren, and a number of nieces, nephews and friends.