Beksha, Vincent P. and Elizabeth (Burns)

Vincent (Vin) P. Beksha, age 91, of West Hartford, passed away peacefully on August 23, 2021 at the UCONN Health Center. Born December 22, 1929 in Lynn, Massachusetts, he was the son of the late Peter and Ursula Bieksza from Lithuania. He was predeceased by his parents and one sister, Helen B. Guice. He was also predeceased by his loving wife of 57 years, Elizabeth (Betty) Beksha on November 23, 2020, due to complications of Covid-19. Betty was born in Hartford, Connecticut on September 9, 1928 and had a lifelong career in Hartford's insurance industry. She was predeceased by her four sisters and two brothers; Mary O'neill, Helen Brown, Lee Northrop, Ruth Stanley, Francis B. Burns, and Thomas W. Burns. Betty and Vin met on the “ski train” to Vermont and continued to pursue their love of skiing, travel, and art collecting throughout their life together. Purrcy, their cat of many years, provided them great companionship and comfort these last years.

Vin was a graduate of Tufts University, class of 1952 and received his Masters from Western New England College, going on to pursue a long engineering career at Hamilton Standard working, among other things, on the space suit program for the NASA moon landings. Betty and Vin are survived by many nieces and nephews on both the east and west coasts.

Their joint funeral service and interment will be at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 28, 2021 at Mount St. Benedict Cemetery, 1 Cottage Grove Road, Bloomfield, CT. For further information, please visit www.molloyfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Connecticut Humane Society, 701 Russell Road, Newington, CT 06111 or online at www. cthumane.org