- Date Of Birth: May 9, 1945
- Date Of Death: January 20, 2020
- State: Maryland
Beverly Ann Parrish was born in Baltimore MD on May 9, 1945 to John and Catherine Parrish. She departed this life to be with the Lord on Jan. 20, 2020. Raised in S.W. Baltimore as the oldest of seven children, she was educated in Baltimore Public Schools.
Around age eleven, she contracted rheumatic fever and was bedridden for almost three years. This illness weakened her heart and limited her use of stairs. Unable to attend school during this time, she later finished her early education at William S. Baer school, completing her education at Southern Business School.
At the young age of seventeen, Beverly married John Beatty, becoming a mother at eighteen. Although the union did not survive, it produced three wonderful children: Catherine, Madeline, and John JR. She later married Franklin (Mick) Bauer, and to this union were born two beautiful children: Dawn and Keith. By age twenty-eight, Beverly was the happy mother of five children. She and Mick were together over 35 years at the time of his death in 2006.
Beverly was preceded in death by her beloved husband Franklin (Mick) Bauer, parents John Parrish & Catherine and Warren Brown SR, brothers John Parrish, Robert (Buddy) Brown, and James Brown, and son-in-law Keith Knickman SR.
Beverly is survived by her sisters Marlyn Hansen, Madeline Loney and husband Ed, her brother Warren Brown and wife Dot. She is also survived by her five children and their spouses: Catherine Beatty, Madeline, and husband Frank Hendrickson SR, John, and wife Sherri Beatty, Dawn, and husband Brad Bentz, Keith and wife, Amy Bauer, as well as thirteen grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, and a host of nieces and nephews. Beverly’s family was her pride and joy!
She enjoyed bingo, bowling, shuffleboard, cooking, and playing games with her great-grandchildren.
She especially enjoyed the many years of hosting the Hyde Park Thanksgiving feast when she fed 80-100 people, with her daughters and sons-in-laws assisting behind the line.
Although fiercely independent, when she was no longer able to live on her own, Beverly spent her final years living in her own apartment, with daughter Cathy, on the homestead of daughter Mad and son-in-law Frank in rural Woodbine, MD. While the landscape is very different from the Eastern Shore she called home for many years, it is a serenely peaceful setting, surrounded by quiet beauty.
Neither of these can begin to compare to the unparalleled, indescribable beauty of her heavenly home.
