She was born May 5, 1926, at her grandmother's farm in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She also lived in Shawnee, Okla., and Houston. She graduated in 1944 from Enid High School, Enid, Oklahoma. In 1945, she moved to Chicago, where she met her husband, Richard E. Fletcher. They were married January 4, 1947, at Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago.
She was experienced in retail, publicly recognized for teaching quilting and an accomplished charter member of three needlepoint guilds. She was a heritage quilter volunteer at McHenry County Historical Society Museum, Union. She volunteered for 25 years at Memorial Hospital, was an antique consultant, a partner with Mother Lode Estate Sales for 32 years, a board member of the Dick Tracy Museum, an election judge, the first woman precinct committeeman in McHenry County and an active reader and church member. Her husband worked for 22 years on the comic strip "Dick Tracy" by Chester Gould. Beverly died Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at the Inpatient Hospice Unit at Centegra Specialty Hospital-Woodstock. Survivors include a daughter, Kathryn Sue; a son, Richard Ross; and four grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband and a son-in-law, Richard Werrbach.
She was experienced in retail, publicly recognized for teaching quilting and an accomplished charter member of three needlepoint guilds. She was a heritage quilter volunteer at McHenry County Historical Society Museum, Union. She volunteered for 25 years at Memorial Hospital, was an antique consultant, a partner with Mother Lode Estate Sales for 32 years, a board member of the Dick Tracy Museum, an election judge, the first woman precinct committeeman in McHenry County and an active reader and church member. Her husband worked for 22 years on the comic strip "Dick Tracy" by Chester Gould. Beverly died Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at the Inpatient Hospice Unit at Centegra Specialty Hospital-Woodstock. Survivors include a daughter, Kathryn Sue; a son, Richard Ross; and four grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband and a son-in-law, Richard Werrbach.
She was born May 5, 1926, at her grandmother's farm in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She also lived in Shawnee, Okla., and Houston. She graduated in 1944 from Enid High School, Enid, Oklahoma. In 1945, she moved to Chicago, where she met her husband, Richard E. Fletcher. They were married January 4, 1947, at Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago.
She was experienced in retail, publicly recognized for teaching quilting and an accomplished charter member of three needlepoint guilds. She was a heritage quilter volunteer at McHenry County Historical Society Museum, Union. She volunteered for 25 years at Memorial Hospital, was an antique consultant, a partner with Mother Lode Estate Sales for 32 years, a board member of the Dick Tracy Museum, an election judge, the first woman precinct committeeman in McHenry County and an active reader and church member. Her husband worked for 22 years on the comic strip "Dick Tracy" by Chester Gould. Beverly died Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at the Inpatient Hospice Unit at Centegra Specialty Hospital-Woodstock. Survivors include a daughter, Kathryn Sue; a son, Richard Ross; and four grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband and a son-in-law, Richard Werrbach.
She was experienced in retail, publicly recognized for teaching quilting and an accomplished charter member of three needlepoint guilds. She was a heritage quilter volunteer at McHenry County Historical Society Museum, Union. She volunteered for 25 years at Memorial Hospital, was an antique consultant, a partner with Mother Lode Estate Sales for 32 years, a board member of the Dick Tracy Museum, an election judge, the first woman precinct committeeman in McHenry County and an active reader and church member. Her husband worked for 22 years on the comic strip "Dick Tracy" by Chester Gould. Beverly died Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at the Inpatient Hospice Unit at Centegra Specialty Hospital-Woodstock. Survivors include a daughter, Kathryn Sue; a son, Richard Ross; and four grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband and a son-in-law, Richard Werrbach.
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