Wendall answered his phone with the greeting “Yo! MTV Raps” and concluded each call with “Hasta la vista”. The perfect additive to anything Charlie Sheen. He continually enjoyed the show’s endless loop of reruns while eating a bowl of Frosted Flakes with an additional teaspoon of sugar. Over the years, when Wendall wasn’t setting his long hair on fire in the carport, he became quite the connoisseur of the television sitcom Two and a Half Men. He reached the zenith of his power when he obtained his Excalibur! The electric flyswatter racket.
He was one of the most feared mosquito fighters in the Southeast. He worked with duct tape and PVC the way Michelangelo worked with oil and marble. Wendall was an expert in life hacks long before the internet made it popular. His war cry “Put it on the whip!” as far as we know, is still hovering in space over Fincher’s Barbecue. Despite being a game with no pause button that required two controllers, he eventually beat the game after years of power outages and the epic struggles of his wife Barbara on the second controller. His legendary battle with the video game Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Atari 2600 lives in the folklore of Macon, Georgia to this very day. He played basketball like a bandit and played tennis like a pro, winning over 30 USTA tennis trophies in the 1980’s while smoking a cigarette. Wendall changed sports cars like most people change their underwear. Later, he was elected to the Local Union #48 Executive Board before retiring to invent an algorithm that failed to reverse engineer the drawing pattern of winning lottery numbers. An occupation that took him on extraordinary, unprintable adventures across the United States with Gene Gene the insulating machine, Jimmy Majors, Max Ennis, Rutroe, Lloyd Baker, and the Bond Brothers. Wendall worked for The Heat & Frost Insulators Local Union #48 in Atlanta. He is only survived by his wife Barbara Krasnicki Beck, his son Jason, his daughter-in-law Jennifer, his brother Allen Sherwood Beck, and over 6 hours of hummingbird footage which he captured on a Panasonic Omnimovie PV-610 VHS camcorder. and Joseph Donald “Tony” Beck, his sisters, Wanda Delores Beck Asmus and Judy Patricia Beck, his nephew Paul Desmond “Desi” Beck, and his beloved duck coffee mug. Wendall outlived almost everything including his parents, Ralph Samuel Beck and Edna Thurston Beck, his brothers Ralph Samuel Beck, Jr.
Neither could the drill in the arm, the taxidermy moose head, the bowl of Christmas Eve spaghetti, the lighter and the can of hairspray, the fall through the ceiling, the golf ball to the head, twelve economic recessions, multiple bankruptcies, Little League coaching, brake fluid from his Triumph TR6, or partying with Ronnie Hammond, the former lead singer for the Atlanta Rhythm Section, on Lake Tobesofkee. The screwdriver up the nose couldn’t kill Wendall. He has been dicing with death for his entire life, but always ended up peeling off for a victory lap in one of his sports cars. To be honest, we thought Wendall couldn’t die. And I guess that we’re all thinking he did it to avoid watching anyone other than Coach K on the sidelines of a Duke basketball game. On Saturday, July 30, 2022, he clocked out, cashed in his chips, exited stage left, slipped out the back Jack, made like a tree and got out of here, went to get a pack of cigarettes, and gone to attend The Great Gig in The Sky. Ralph Wendall Beck has left the building.
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