Everett Bever, 75,
Jewell, died March 13, 1996, at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Bethesda Lutheran
Church in Jewell, with Rev. Tim Napppe officiating. Burial will be at
Evergreen Cemetery in Jewell. Soderstrum-Larson Funeral Home in Story
City is in charge of arrangements.
Everett Dean Bever, son of Frank and Leah Robbins Bever, was born May
13, 1920, in Blairsburg. He was a lifetime Jewell and Webster City
resident. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II in
Australia and the south Pacific and earned the Distinguished Flying
Cross. He made his living as a farmer and retired in 1983. On June 15,
1941, he married Ruth Elizabeth Whaley.
He is survived by his wife; sons and daughters-in-law, James E. and
Audrey Bever, Dallas, Texas, William D. and Sandy Bever, Sherman, Texas;
daughters and son-in-law, Ann E. Thomas, Conway, Ark., Kathy and Mike
Ose, Story City; seven grandchildren; sister, Lila Hunter, Greene; and
brother, Franklin Bever, Webster City. He was preceded in death by his
parents and a granddaughter, Beth Ann Robinson.
Mr. Bever was a member of Bethesda Lutheran Church in Story City, the
American Legion, and had been a city council member in Jewell.
Ruth & Everett are together at Evergreen
Cemetery in Jewell, Iowa
Ruth passed away in 2003
