Janel Beckman
Minneapolis/Bricelyn – Janel Kay Beckman passed peacefully away on Dec. 19, 2020 at Rakhma Peace Home in Minneapolis. She was 76 and born on Oct. 27, 1944 to Ruby and Lewis Lansing in Rolfe, Iowa. Her family soon moved to Bricelyn where her parents ran Lew’s Meats on Main Street. Janel graduated from Bricelyn High School in 1962 and then attended The Original LaJames College of Cosmetology in Mason City, Iowa. She married Tracy Beckman in 1963 and they embarked on their life journey together. Janel was a lifelong rock-hound and fossil collector and together with Tracy they explored rock and fossil deposits wherever they went. After Tracy’s military stint in Texas, they settled back in Minnesota and lived in Mankato, Madison and Redwood Falls before they purchased Bricelyn Hardware in late 1974. Together, they ran the business, raised a family which included their adopted daughter Rosa, from Bogota, Columbia and made a home for foster children. Janel also worked a