City Banker Dies at 65
                          Beaulieu a Leader in Civic Activities
 
Pius D.  Beaulieu, 65,  Austin banker  and community leader,  died of  a heart
ailment at his home at 1211 Eberhart  Drive at 7 a.m. today.  Mr. Beaulieu was
identified with  banking in this city for  34 years, as chairman  of the board
and president of  the Austin State bank, and earlier as  cashier of the former
Austin National bank.
 
During those  years he was active  in many civic  organizations and movements,
and was a tireless worker in charitable and war bond drives.
 
He is survived  by his wife Margaret and two sons,  Richard and Robert both
of whom  live in St.   Paul. Funeral services  will be held monday  at 8:30
a.m. at the Mayer Funeral home and at 9:00 at St. Augustine church.  Burial
will be at the Catholic cemetery.
 
Mr. Beaulieu was president of the Austin State bank from 1932 until Jan. 1,
1949,  when  he was  elected  chairman of  the  board.   Born at  Waterloo,
Dec. 19,  1883, he received  his education at  the high school  at Sheldon,
Iowa, and at the Capitol City Commercial college, Des Moines.
 
His  first connection  with banking  was in  the Big  Stone County  bank at
Graceville, where he  was employed from 1904 to 1907.   He was with General
Mills at Minneapolis for about two years, when he came to Austin in 1909 in
the employ of  the Austin National bank where he  remained as cashier until
1926.  He went  to Mankato where he  was cashier and  vice-president of the
National Citizens bank,  and remained there until 1932  when he returned to
Austin as president of the Austin State bank.
 
He was  former chairman  of the Mower  County Republican committee,  a post
which he held for a number of  years.  He was past president of the Kiwanis
Club, former director  of the Chamber of Commerce,  former secretary of the
Austin Country  club which he was  instrumental in organizing,  a leader in
war bond  drives in both world  wars, past chairman of  the community chest
and member of  St. Augustine's church and Knights  of Columbus.  During his
earlier years in banking here, he  was a member and president of the Austin
water and light board and held that post until he moved to Mankato.
 
Dated:  March 4, 1949
Newspaper unknown. 
 

				Deaths
			  Margaret Beaulieu

Mrs. Margaret L. Beaulieu, 82, died Saturday at Sacred Heart Hospice, where
she resided.

She  was  the widow  of  P.  D.   Beaulieu,  Austin  State Bank  president.
Mrs. Beaulieu  was a  voice and piano  instructor and  more that 35  of her
compositions  were published.   Surviving are  two sons,  Richard Beaulieu,
Anchorage,  Alaska,  and  Robert  Beaulieu,  Red  Wing,  Minn.;  a  sister,
Mrs. H. T. McGuigan, Red Wing.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday.

Austin (MN) Herald
1 Dec 1969