Beverly Boughner

Bev was always a hard working woman, she was proud of her children and grandchildren. she came from hard-working people, she had wildness of a Norseman, the frugalness Scotsman and Irish work ethic. The Carley family name originated in Scotland, traveled to Northern Ireland, later moved to Wales and England.The first Kerley/Carley’s came from Dorset, England to the Colony of Massachusetts in 1620, making her a Mayflower daughter, eventually ending up in Wisconsin and then Illinois where she was born, during the Great Depression in 1925. She came from a big family, 6 girls and 4 boys (one brother was given to another family member to raise during the depression). She was a hard person to get to know, she treated all of her children’s friends as if they were her own and woe betide anyone who harmed her children. She grew up working in restaurants and re-invented herself at 38 following a heart attack gaining her High School Equivalency and 2 weeks later her Accounting degree. She worked for a C&S bank which became Nationsbank and then Bank of America and was the wire operator for Blunt, Ellis & Lowe and Smith-Barney brokerage houses. She resided in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, & Georgia. She was preceded to God by her parents, Arthur and Geneva Carly (later m. John W. McCarthy) and her oldest son Leon, her granddaughter Betty,1 brother, Robbie and sister Judy and their spouses Becky Jean and Roy respectively. She is survived by 4 sisters, Barbara, Sherry, Becky Lee and Jeanie and 2 brothers, Donnie and David and her remaining children, Bruce and Toni, Leon’s widow Kim, and Bruce’s wife Sheri and the grandchildren Jamie Jo, Kym, Bruce and Patrick and her great grandson Jareth.