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| Birth: | 14 Apr 1918 in Indianapolis,Marion Co.,Indiana |
| Death: | 23 Mar 2006 in Mishawaka,St. Joseph Co.,Indiana |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | George Irvin Beard b. 30 Jun 1897 in Owasco,Clay Township,Carroll Co.,Indiana |
| Mother: | Bernice Griffith b. 13 Jan 1891 in Locheil,Benton Co.,Indiana |
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| Burial: 25 Mar 2006 St.JoeValleyMem,Granger,St. Joseph Co.,Indiana |
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| Elizabeth Ann Doyle (Wife) b. 12 Jan 1921 in Lockhart,Norman Co.,Minnesota
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| Divorce: | N |
| Marriage: | 19 NOV 1949 in South Bend,St. Joseph Co.,IN |
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Individual:
Grew up in South Bend, Indiana, at 1218 Kinyon Steet, just west of the St.
Joseph River, north of downtown South Bend. Attended Muessel School through 8th grade.
Graduated from Central High School, South Bend, Indiana.
Attended University of Chicago. Military service: Master Sgt. in U.S. Army during WW II. Served from January
17, 1941 to December 1945. Entered the U.S. Army from the Indiana National
Guard. Lived in Mishawaka, Indiana, at 230 Palau Avenue from November 1949 until
December 2004. From January 2005 until his death in March 2006, he lived in a
nursing home in Mishawaka. Name of nursing home was Fountainview. It was
located about two miles northwest of his house at 230 Palau. Social Security Number: 315-10-6764
Worked at Ball Band/UniRoyal from about 1948 until about 1980. He worked in the
factory, operated machines, and was a member of United Rubber Workers Union. He had extreme tunnel vision that began when he was about 50 (in 1968). Before
1999, he had suffered several small strokes (infarcts to the brain). Those
small strokes went undiagnosed until he had a massive stroke in March 1999 at
the age of 81. Brain scans after the massive stroke showed that there had been
previous small strokes. After his massive stroke in March 1999, he was
intentionally left without help for three hours before help was called for. As
a result of the masssive stroke, he suffered left-side brain damage, aphasia,
and right-side paralysis. By the last quarter of 1999, he was anemic because of
bleeding from untreated colon cancer. In early 2000, he was hospitalized for
TURP surgery (transurethrao resection of the prostate). He was hospitalized for
the surgery because he could not urinate. As he was being examined in
preparation for the surgery, rectal bleeding and anemia caused by colon cancer
were found, and the TURP surgery was delayed in favor of surgery to remove a
ten-inch section of his colon. After he recovered from the surgery for colon
cancer, he returned to the hospital for the TURP surgery. On May 24, 2003, when Miles was 85 years old, dealing with severe vascular
infarct dementia (brain damage), aphasia from left-side brain damage,
delusions, long-standing depression, near blindness, partial right-side
paralysis, and over medication, Miles sat in the backyard of what had been his
home since late 1949. With him were his wife and his wife's #1 daughter from
her first marriage, Miles' stepdaughter. Also present was a lawyer whom Miles
knew only as a boy who had grown up on the back street (S. Eric Marshall,
graduate of U. of Notre Dame Law). The lawyer chatted with Miles about things
from decades ago and mentioned names familiar to Miles from decades ago, and
Miles would have done his best to "act normal." ... Miles' #1 son and #3 son
had spent time with Miles in the days before May 24, 2003. Miles had been
cleaned up and shaved, and the yard had been cleaned up and trimmed. Also in
town during the week of "clean up" had been Miles' wife's #2 daughter from her
first marriage, Miles' other stepdaughter. ... On May 24, 2003, the lawyer
arrived with a prepared durable power-of-attorney, ready for Miles' signature
or mark. The lawyer would have had no knowledge of the drama and hidden secrets
that he had walked into. From January 3, 2005, until his death on March 23, 2006, Miles resided at
Fountainview Place Nursing Home, in Mishawaka, Indiana. Miles' direct cause of death was dehydration. On the Saturday before he died on
Thursday, Miles did not eat, for unknown reasons. He became dehydrated. The
following day, the nursing home wanted to give him hydration by IV. Someone
from the nursing home contacted the person who had taken his power-of-attorney
after he was severely brain damaged; permission was requested to rehydrate
Miles. The person who had taken power-of-attorny ordered the nursing home, "no
IV hydration and no IV nutrition." Basically, "If he doesn't eat or drink on
his own, for whatever reason, let him die." ... Miles died lying in an open
room, across from the nursing home dining room, next to the nurses' station.
For five days he lay there dying of POA-ordered forced dehydration, able to be
seen by anyone who looked into his room on the way into the dining room, able
to be seen by anyone who visited the nursing station and looked into the room.
... Miles' death certificate was signed by a physician (Thomas Barbour) who had
not seen Mr. Beard the day he died or the immediate days prior. Miles died just
after 7 P.M. on Thursday, March 23; the physician signed the death certificate
on Saturday, March 25, listing cause of death as "severe dementia" that Miles
had had for "several years." There was no autopsy, no coroner's report, and
Miles' body was in the ground before Dr. Barbour even signed the death
certificate. The following Monday, the death certificate was rubber stamped by
the County Health Officer. Miles was a veteran of World War II; he served for five years and was honorably
discharged as a Master Sergeant. In October 2006, his grave was marked with a
military marker provided by the Veterans Administration. July 30, 2007, the same
person who had taken his power-of-attorney after Miles was was severely brain
damaged (the same person who had ordered Miles to die of forced dehydration)
learned that Miles' grave site had been marked with a military marker. She
orederd the cemetery employees to dig up the military marker and completely
remove it from Miles grave site. She was able to do that because she had put
her name on the burial plot when she used Miles' own money to arrange for the
purchase of the burial plot in December 2004, when she believed that Miles
would soon be dead. Miles had been dead for more than 16 months, and he had
been severely brain damaged for more than seven years before he died. Miles
was not served well by the people who pretended to "help" him after his massive
stroke in March 1999 when he was left unarguably and severely brain damaged.
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