Dr. Beverly J. (Dernier) Crabtree (1937-2016)
CRABTREE, DERNIER, DELES, KUNKEL, HUNTER
Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 1/1/2017 at 12:38:04
From Rasmusson-Bacon Funeral Home & Crematory obituary, Nevada and Maxwell, Story County, Iowa:
Dr. Beverly J. Crabtree, 79, formerly of Ames, passed away peacefully on December 7, 2016 at the Manor at Elfindale, in Springfield, MO after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
She was born June 22, 1937 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Wayne and Frances Deles Dernier. She graduated from Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri in 1955. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1959 and 1962 with a major in Home Economics Education. Bev completed her Ph.D at Iowa State University with a major in Home Economics Education and minors in Sociology and Statistics. She met R. Jewell Crabtree while an undergraduate at the University of Missouri and they were married June 1, 1958.
Dr. Crabtree began her career as a high school home economics teacher in southwest Missouri. In 1964 she went on to become a faculty member at Michigan State University. She moved to the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1967 as the Chair of the Home Economics Education Department and later served as the Associate Dean of Extension for the College of Home Economics. She assumed the position of Dean of the College of Home Economics at Oklahoma State University in 1975 and served for 12 years. In 1987, Bev accepted the position of Dean of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at Iowa State University and retired there in 1997. Throughout her career Dr. Crabtree belonged to numerous professional, honorary and local civic organizations and served in a variety of leadership roles.
After her retirement, Beverly and Jewell had the good fortune to travel extensively in the US and abroad. Beverly was an avid reader and played a mean game of Scrabble and Pitch. She also adored her five grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her mother and father. Bev is survived by her husband of 58 years, Jewell Crabtree; son, Greg Crabtree and wife Ursula; daughter Karen Kunkel and husband Allen; grandchildren Annelisa and Amelia Crabtree and Logan, Braden and Eden Kunkel; her brother, LeRoy Deles Dernier and wife Ruth, and sister, Marilyn Hunter and husband Paul, as well as several nieces and nephews. She was loved deeply and will be greatly missed.
A visitation for family and friends will be held on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at Rasmusson-Bacon Funeral Home, 1418 Fawcett Parkway, Nevada, IA. Memorial services will be held on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 10:00 am at the Nevada First United Methodist Church, 1036 7th Street, Nevada, IA with interment immediately following.
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorial contributions be made to the Beverly and R. Jewell Crabtree Scholarship in care of the Iowa State University Foundation, 2505 University Boulevard, P.O. Box 2230, Ames, IA 50010-2230.
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