Beverly Joanne Beck

Beverly Joanne (Peterson) Beck passed away peacefully on October 30, 2024, in Hospice care at the Appleton Nursing Home at the age of 91. Beverly was born on October 23, 1933, at the Kittson Memorial Hospital in Hallock, Minnesota to Orphie and George Peterson.  As a youth, she was an avid farm girl who was not afraid to get dirty and help out with chores, hunt to provide food for the family and she was her dad’s partner in farming growing up.  Beverly was a devoted mother of four sons.  She was an RN at the Appleton Hospital and took pride in assisting in delivering many babies throughout her tenure in nursing.  Beverly loved spending time in her hometown of Lancaster, MN during holidays and other special times of the year such as harvest season with family and friends.  Beverly was united in marriage to Billy Dean Beck, and they raised their four sons together in Appleton.  Beverly enjoyed quilting and sewing, gardening, preserving foods and was an amazing cook.  Even though she usually worked nights taking care of other families, she always had meals prepared for all her boys and her husband at home.  During the summers the family would spend most of their time together at the family cabin on Ottertail Lake making the best memories ever.  In her later years she spent her time reading “Little House on the Prairie” and she refused to miss her episodes of “The Waltons”, “Wagon Train” and “Gunsmoke”.  Beverly cherished living out her last years in the town where she raised her own family and so many others.  It truly felt like a completed circle that she was taken care of by those who she nurtured through the years.  Beverly was preceded in death by her parents George and Orphie Peterson, brother Gary and his wife Marge Peterson, sister Barbara and her husband Jim Clow, son Bradley Beck and her loving husband Billy Beck.  Beverly is survived by her three youngest sons: Brent (Ellen) Beck, Barry (Victoria) Beck and Bobby Beck; brother Kenny (Barb) Peterson; 10 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and many nieces, nephews and cousins.  A service of joined committal for Beverly and Billy will be planned for the spring of 2025 to be held at the Sion Lutheran Church in Lancaster, MN. Notice will be published in the Appleton Press.  Please forward any condolences to her son Barry at 732 NE Second Avenue, Grand Rapids, MN 55744.