She was educated at the local schools and in 1915 she enrolled at the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College where she was taught the latest ideas based on the work of Montessori.

She was there until 1924[2] when she became the first paid general secretary of the South Australian Kindergarten Union[1] where she worked with Ethel McDonnell and Lucy Morice.

[1] In 1937 she was awarded the Catherine Helen Spence Memorial Scholarship to enable her to further her study into parent education and child welfare.

In 1939 she travelled to Britain and France to attend lectures on early childhood and to visit nursery schools and kindergartens.

[6] Beeston died aboard the MS Rangitane 300 miles off East Cape in the Pacific Ocean on 27 November 1940.

For 19 minutes the Rangitane engaged its top speed and during this time the German fire killed three engine staff, two stewardesses and five passengers.