Eloise Beatty, 104, of Shoreham, ardent baseball fan

Even with three sons and a husband who spent many a summer day on the baseball diamond, Eloise "Bunny" Beatty was her family's most ardent baseball fan, rooting hard, first for the Dodgers and later for the Yankees and the Mets.

The retired public schoolteacher would phone her sons in the middle of a game on television for her version of the instant replay.

"She would call me up at night and say 'did you just see what Mickey Mantle did?' " said her son Dr. Christopher Beatty of East Setauket. "We were Brooklyn Dodger fans back in the 1950s. She would take us to Ebbets Field or to Yankee Stadium."

Beatty was likely one of the Island's oldest residents when she died on July 23 at the age of 104, her family said.

Born Eloise Conahan, she grew up in Brooklyn and studied at Teachers College at Columbia University before becoming a first-grade teacher in the city's public schools. She met her husband, George Edward Beatty, in Manhattan's social scene, their son said.

"They met at one of those tea dances that used to be held at something like the Plaza Hotel, with big bands playing," said Christopher Beatty, 69, a general surgeon.

Beatty's husband, George, an architect, was the mayor of Shoreham from 1952 to 1962, and for 50 years the village's Fourth of July parade participants would gather at their home before the start of the festivities. The tradition led the village to rename their street Beatty Road.

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Despite a lack of interest in golf, she also developed something of a crush on Tiger Woods, her son said, because he had a sweet smile and was nice to his mother.

"For her 100th birthday, we got her a personally autographed picture, a 5 by 7 picture of Tiger Woods," Beatty said. "She loved it. She was so proud of that picture and she put it up alongside pictures of us." She never learned of Woods' recent indiscretions, her son said.

Beatty is also survived by her son David Beatty, 67, a bank president from Norfolk, Va., 10 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Beatty's husband died in 1978, and her eldest son, George Jr., died in 2001.

A wake is scheduled at the Alexander Tuthill Funeral Home in Wading River Thursday, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. The funeral Mass is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday at St. Mark's Church in Shoreham, which was designed by her husband and where Beatty taught catechism classes for years. A private burial will follow at Wading River Cemetery.