A memorial service for Abigail S J Healy, 82 of Natchez who died Thursday October 12, 2017 at her residence will be 11 a.m. Saturday October 28, 2017 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Natchez. Visitation will be from 9:30 until service time at Trinity Episcopal Church. Abigail Jenkins Healy, 82, passed away peacefully at home on October 12. Abigail was born on July 25, 1935 in Natchez. Survivors include her husband, Jerry D. Beach, son, George W. and wife, Rosi of Gulfport, John Carmichael of Apex, N C, Floyd Alford, and wife, Wendy, of Maumelle, AR ,and Hyde Dunbar, and wife, Elizabeth Slatten of Covington, LA, and step-son, Pierce Beach and wife Lacey of Sunflower, MS, Bettye McGehee Jenkins, sister-in-law of Natchez, MS, nine grandchildren, one step grandson of Sunflower MS and a number of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Hyde Rust Jenkins and Helen Byrnes Jenkins and four siblings, Helen Louise Kuehnle, Annie Ferriday Coleman, Katherine Denver Slatter, Hyde (Sonny) Jenkins, and G. W. (Bunky) Healy III, father of her four surviving sons. After Abigail returned to Natchez from New Orleans in the late 1960s'. Abigail found employment as a "step-on" guide for the Pilgrimage Garden Club and became involved in promoting travel to Natchez, establishing Ole South Tours and offering the first fly-drive package advertised in Delta Airways Dream Manual. Her connection with Pro Travel of New Orleans and Delta Airlines led to a FAM trip to parts of Europe showing slides of historic houses and sites along the Mississippi. Her interest in tourism and travel remained a part of her career her life time along with an interest in local politics and was elected Chairman of the Adams County Republican Party for several years was a delegate to the '76 National Republican Convention in Kansas City. Abigail accepted a presidential appointment by President Ronald Reagan in "81" and served as the first and only alcohol liaison in the Drug Abuse policy office in the White House. She returned to Natchez and became the Republican nominee for the 4thdistrict Congressional office of the 4th district, garnering 30% of the vote. Seeing a need for a shelter for victims and the families of domestic Violence in southwestern Mississippi, Abigail under the supervision of Sister Clare Hogan of Catholic Charities, Inc., enlisted the help of Mayor Brown and his administration for the renovation and use of the old Natchez General hospital and obtained a permit for the permit Guardian Shelter for Battered Families to use the first floor as a temporary haven and the upper two floors as low income apartments. Upon retiring as shelter Director, Abigail founded the Sunshine Shelter for Abused Children with the help of Senator Bob Dearing and seed money from Doris Buffett's Sunshine Shelter organization. Memorial contributions may be made to: Trinity Episcopal Church Natchez, MS.