Beverly Ann Johnson, age 81, of Washington, Iowa, died Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at The Halcyon House.
Celebration of life services will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 2, 2022, at the First Lutheran Church in Prophetstown, Illinois with Pastor Chelsey Weech officiating. The family will greet friends from 10:00 a.m. until service time at the church. Interment will be held at the Riverside Cemetery in Prophetstown, Illinois. Memorials have been established for the First Lutheran Church in Prophetstown. Online condolences may be sent for Beverly's family through the web at
www.jonesfh.com
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Beverly was born November 3, 1940, the middle child of three daughters born to George Alfred and Oral Anzella (Raser) Johnson of rural Tampico, Illinois. She grew up in Yorktown, Illinois, and attended Grade School there and graduated from Tampico High School in 1958. She graduated from Moline Institute of Commerce, Moline, Illinois, in 1959 and was employed by Alcoa Aluminum Company in Riverdale, Iowa, from 1959 until she retired in 1993.
She was a lifetime member of The First Lutheran Church in Prophetstown, Illinois. She belonged to Alpha Iota sorority and the retired Alcoa Workers Association.
Beverly lived in the Illinois Quad Cities all of her working years, mostly in East Moline. She often talked about traveling across the Mississippi River two times each day while she was employed by Alcoa. She finally relocated in Washington, Iowa, where she lived at Halcyon House for six years.
After she retired, Beverly did various volunteer jobs in the Quad Cities, Niabi Zoo, volunteered for Black Hawk Community College tutoring adults working on their GEDs, assisted disabled adults at the Two Rivers YMCA in Moline during swimming classes. She received the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Y in 2001.
Beverly enjoyed traveling by car, bus and plane and has been to many interesting places usually traveling with friends or relatives. She organized and hosted "Camp Aunt Bev" for her nieces and nephews for many years.
Beverly is survived by her sisters, Donna Satterfield and husband, Chuck, of Washington, Iowa, and Lyla Lindquist and husband, Tom, of Maryville, Tennessee. She is also survived by nieces Loree, Krista, Melissa, Amanda, Elizabeth, Jennifer and Laura. She enjoyed being Aunt Bev to many great nieces and nephews and great great nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a niece, Michelle.
The family would like to thank the staff at Halcyon House for the excellent care Bev received for over six years.