Memorial services for Don V. Beery, 81, of 2944 NW 29th St., are planned at 11 a.m. Wednesday at DeMoss-Durdan Garden Chapel. Members of the Masonic Lodge A.F.&A.M., No. 14, will conduct Masonic rites.
Mr. Beery died Sunday [February 7, 1982] at the Corvallis Manor. Private cremation will take place at the DeMoss-Durban Crematory. He was born March 9, 1900 to A. A. Beery and Minerva Douthitt Beery in Lebanon, Mo.
From 1917 until 1919 he served with the military in England and France during World War I. In 1920 he and Emily Smith were married. She died in 1931.
Mr. Beery joined the staff of Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co. in 1920 in Portland. He was transferred in 1924 to Oakland, Calif. to work and to Corvallis in 1930. He retired in Corvallis as a chief switchman in 1962.
In 1933 he and Hazel Chapman were married in Portland. Mr. Beery was a member of the American Legion and a post commander in 1947. He was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and the Masonic Lodge A.F.&A.M., No. 14.
Surviving are his wife, Hazel of Corvallis; his son, David of Oakland, Calif.; two sisters, Nelle Hyde of Eugene and Fay Anderson of Portland. The family suggests remembrances to the Benton Hospice. These may be sent to DeMoss-Durdan Garden Chapel, 815 NW Buchanan Ave.
Contributed by: Shelli Steedman