Jeffrey Drew Beckwith, MD, of Springfield, died on April 1, 2021. He was born in Seattle, Wash. on April 24, 1945, into a working-class family. His father was a printer by trade, whose work took the family to New York, Illinois and Indiana, by the time Jeff was 15.
He remembered as a child being able to walk the neighborhood streets, pick berries, ride bikes with his older brother David, play pickup basketball at the…
