Beverly C. Walter

Beverly Corinne Penn, was born on July 9th, 1934 at Villisca, Iowa to James Raymond and Pearl D. Beaver. Beverly entered eternal rest Tuesday, October 29, 2019, at EveryStep Hospice, Creston, Iowa, at the age of eighty-five years.
Beverly grew up in Villisca, Brooks and Corning. In the summer of 1947, during thrashing season, Beverly met Glen at a meal she helped provide for the thrashers that day. She graduated from Corning High School in the Class of 1952.
Beverly married Glen Edward Walter, on July 20, 1952, in Corning, Iowa.
Beverly worked as a manicurist at the Townhouse Barber Shop on West Dodge Rd. in Omaha, Nebraska in the early sixties, she attended beauty school and graduated, receiving her cosmetologist degree. Beverly then worked in her own beauty shop in the basement of her home, built by her husband, Glen and her Uncle Milton Ankeny. Glen, who wanted to work alongside of Beverly, decided soon to also, attend and graduate from the same school, to then become a licensed cosmetologist like Beverly. The beauty shop was named, Bev & Glens Beauty Shop, and was operated there until the summer of 1968, at which time, Beverly and Glen, and their four boys, Stephen, Randall, David and Timothy, moved to Corning, where, Glen and Uncle Milton, built another beauty shop under the Okey Vernon National Bank at 7th. & Davis Street, in Corning, operating it for many years.
Beverly, also, worked with Glen, in several homebased businesses, and was a Luzier Cosmetic consultant, she later received her life insurance sales agent license along with Glen, to then work at funeral homes in Iowa with the prefunded prearranged funerals for people. Beverly, then studied and receive her real estate license along with Glen, to then sell properties in the Corning area.
Memberships and interests include, the Corning United Methodist Church, the Emblem Chapter No. 64, Order of the Eastern Star, the Red Hat Society.
Beverly enjoyed growing plants in her home and in the flower gardens outside, she sewed and knitted, she loved to prepare large meals, bake cakes, cookies, pie’s and make fudge and divinity.
Beverly especially enjoyed riding with Glen on his BMW motorcycle, traveling as far as Alaska, and into the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and all around the western United States, like Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
Left to cherish Beverly’s memory is her husband Glen, Creston, Iowa; children: Randy (Cathy) Walter, Ames, Iowa; David (Janet) Walter, Creston, Iowa; Timothy (Kenda) Walter, Ozark, Missouri; eight grandchildren; two great-grandsons; numerous nieces; nephews; and other relatives.
Preceding Beverly in death were her son: Stephen Walter in 1975; three sisters: Marilyn Bixler; Shirley Wiechman; Kathy Reed; parents; nephew: Michael Bixler; great-nephews: Dakota Bixler; Mark Bixler; great-great niece: Danna Rains.