Beverly Jean Neiger
Beverly Jean Neiger
Description: Mar. 3, 1922 – Oct. 9, 2007
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Posted by editor Tue Nov 30, 1999 00:00:00 PST
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0 responses 0 comments Beverly Jean Neiger died peacefully as she slept in the early morning of Oct. 7 in her Bear Valley Springs home near the top of Bear Mountain.
Beverly was born March 3, 1922, in St. Paul, Minn. She married her sweetheart of several years, Seaman 1st class, John H. Neiger, U.S.N., in Chicago, Ill., against everyone’s advice on May 4, 1941 and again after a twenty year separation, starting late in 1946, on June 26, 1966.
During World War II she worked for North American Aviation Corp., then building the B-25 Mitchell Bombers. She also attended the Minneapolis School of Art for two years at that time.
The Neigers moved to Bear Valley Springs coinciding with John’s retirement in April, 1980.
Before Beverly suffered a series of strokes, she was quite active in the community. She was a charter member of the BVS Women’s Club, a charter member of the BVS Theater, Arts & Crafts Club, as well as a contributor and charter member of the BVS Dart Pavilion Association. Being an accomplished artist, she volunteered to make the life bust of Justin Dart which was to be displayed in the Pavilion foyer.
Beverly leaves a daughter, Leslie Ellen Shear, her husband, Graeme Magruder, and Leslie’s daughter, Julia Kushner, of Northridge; son Jeffrey David Shear, of Petaluma, his recently divorced wife, Kristen Shear, and their sons, Steven and Matthew, of Santa Rosa; daughter Judith Anne Neally, her husband, Glen, and their daughters, Rachael and Rebecca, of Austin, Texas.
Her husband, John, with whom she enjoyed 107 wedding anniversaries. Also King Saur, the dog, and Cocao, the cat, who ran the household and cared for and nurtured Beverly all through her 12 year illness, and is still in mourning.
There will be no services, as she is still alive in everyone she came in contact with.
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