U. S. "Grant" BEVERLY

BEVERLY, GILLIAM, JACKSON, INSLEY, HILLMAN, BAKER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/16/2012 at 08:56:09

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
October, 2003

U. S. Grant Beverly

MASON CITY— U.S. Grant BEVERLY, 84, of 622 9th St. N.W., died Monday (Oct. 6, 2003) at the I.O.O.F. Home.

Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the First Christian Church, 318 N. Adams, with Rev. Mark YOUNG of the Clear Lake Christian Church officiating. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery with full military rites conducted by the Mason City Veterans Memorial Association.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, and continue at the church one hour before services.

Grant was born Sept. 15, 1919, in Wise, Va., the son of U.S. Grant and Cynthia (GILLIAM) BEVERLY. Grant served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II from 1940 to 1946. He would later retire from the Army Reserves.

Grant married Velma M. JACKSON on April 5, 1946, in San Jose, Calif. Grant worked in sales for the automobile tire industry for many years retiring from J & L Tire Company. He was a member of the First Christian Church, VFW, American Legion, UCT, enjoyed hunting and Iowa Hawkeye Football.

Grant is survived by his wife; Velma M. BEVERLY of Mason City; sons, Thomas R. BEVERLY and wife, Karen, of Easton, Pa., Paul G. BEVERLY and wife, Diane, of Omaha, Neb.; grandchildren, Justin, Elizabeth, Andrew, David, Melissa and Brian; sisters, Bertha INSLEY of Bend, Ore., Martha HILLMAN of Little Rock, Ark., Cordelia BAKER of Johnson City, Tenn.; many nieces and nephews.

Grant was preceded in death by his parents, six brothers and five sisters.

Major Erickson Funeral Home and Crematory, (641) 423-0924.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2012