Beverly Jeane Jones

In 2010 she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and thus began the long journey of losing her ability to care for herself. During the time she was in hospice care by Lidia Revutchi and staff at Tender Living Care she blossomed and clearly responded to the loving care she received even though she was in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. While she was no longer able to walk, take care of herself, and had mostly lost her ability to speak above a whisper, she always smiled when Lidia came into her room.

Mom was a strong willed, independent woman who also had a strong sense of family and friends maintaining close relationships with her surviving four daughters Trudy Schreiner, Brenda Tarver, Phillis Markwardt, and Jackie Jones. She has 19 surviving grandkids and great-grandkids, and is predeceased by one grandson. She is also predeceased by her six older siblings.

In 1948, she married James Stanley Jones in Corpus Christi, Texas, and they had four daughters. In the mid-1960’s Beverly moved to Houston, Texas, with her family. She went to work full time as a teller at River Oaks Bank and worked as an assistant manager at several apartment complexes. She and Stanley divorced in 1970 and she never remarried. She later met Joseph D. Reed, Sr., who became her partner of 48 years. He predeceased her in 2017.

When not traveling with Joe, she dabbled in knitting Afghans for family members and later started to try her hand at quilt making but her loss of vision made it difficult for her to sew.

Shopping and watching television became her daily entertainments. She especially liked to watch reruns of NCIS. Her favorite movie actors were the classics such as Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, and John Wayne. She enjoyed listening to Big Band and country music.

Beverly will be missed by her daughters and all who knew her.