Frank Beverly

On Friday, March 17, 2006, FRANK BEVERLY departed this life. The oldest child of the late Shirley Nathaniel Beverly and Esther Marie Freeman Beverly, he was born February 24, 1920. He was the namesake of his mother's younger brother who had the same name. Frank grew up in Baltimore City where he received his education. Sometimes he went up to his grandmother's farm, where he was able to work with farm animals. How he loved horses. He was the big brother to his younger siblings, twelve in all. When he was around twenty-one, he registered in CC Camp, a training program similar to Job Corps. He learned to work with conservation, planting trees, etc. While training at the Camp in the latter part of 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked, and the country was plunged into war. He had to enter the United States Armed Forces. He spent almost four years, dividing one half of the time in the states and the other half in Europe. An honorable discharge was received by him in 1945. After his return to the states, he attended night school and trade schools, learning construction, tailoring, shoe repairing, He was self-employed for a while working with a moving and hauling company. Brother Frank liked the simple plain things of life. In his older years, he worked as the head custodian of a larger apartment house. He now joins his other siblings in death, Joseph, Richard, baby girl Beverly, Mildred, Esther, Stanley and Patricia Garrison. The surviving siblings are Nathaniel, Phillip, Calvin, Michael, Octavia and (perhaps) Dorothy; two sisters-in-law, Mary Beverly of Baltimore, Md. and Florine Beverly of California; nephews, Rodney, Harold, Christopher and Clinton Beverly (Florida); nieces, Marsha, Gwendolyn, Leslie and Angela who preceded him in death a year ago; nephews, Stanley Jr., Troy and Galen of California and nieces, Tynya, Talauna and Su Mona of California; one brother-in-law, John Garrison. There are also a host of great-nephews, -nieces, along with friends and neighbors. His favorite hymns were "Onward Christian Soldiers," "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" and "More About Jesus."

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Frank Beverly

February 24, 1920 - March 17, 2006