Rock Springs Daily Rocket-Miner, Nov 10, 2001
ROBERT DYER BEVERIDGE

A memorial services for Robert Dyer Beveridge was conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, 2001 at the First Congregational Church in Rock Springs. The Rev. Jeanny House officiated. Military services at the Veteran's section at the Paul J. Wataha Memorial Cemetery followed the memorial service.

A lifelong resident of Rock Springs, Beveridge, 79, died on Oct. 30, 2001 at the Veterans Medical Center in Salt Lake City from complications related to emphysema and kidney disease.

Born Dec. 7, 1921 in Rock Springs, Beveridge was the ninth of 12 children born to Henry Morris and Mable Clark Beveridge.

After attending the public schools of Rock Springs and graduating from Rock Springs High School with the class of 1939, he went to work for the Union Pacific Cola Company as a motorman in the coal mines.

He married Bulah Bell Nebeker in 1941. They later divorced. They had two daughters together, Sheron and Sandra.

In the spring of 1944, he joined his brothers, Wally, Mick and Henry, who were serving their country in World War II. He served honorably in the U.S. Navy from May 26, 1944 to Feb. 7, 1946 as a Seaman 2nd Class aboard the cruiser U.S.S. Brooklyn in the Mediterranean. After his tour in the U.S. Navy, he returned home to his family and his work in the Stansbury mine. In the early 50s, he left the mine and took an opportunity to learn the sheet metal trade. He worked as an apprentice, then journeyman for six year before opening his own whop, White Sheet Metal Works, which he operated until he retired.

In his earlier years, Beveridge enjoyed playing on a city softball team. Later his activities turned to bowling and exploring the desert in his truck. One of his favorite things in life was puzzles of any sort, and he spent a lot of his free time in retirement figuring out the latest mind teaser with his brother, Mick.

Beveridge is survived by his daughters, Sheron Lee Medill and husband Adam, Rock Springs, and Sandy Kay Beveridge, Salt Lake City; one sister, Cora Berta, Rock Springs; two brothers, Arthur Beveridge and Jack "Mick" Beveridge, all of Rock Springs; two granddaughters, Nyla Lee Medill Miller and husband Shayne of Salt Lake City, and Wendy Mae Medill Suhr and husband Sterling of Rock Springs; four great-granddaughters; two great-grandsons; and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to his parents, Beveridge was preceded in death by five brothers, Henry, Charles, George, Wallace, and infant Beveridge; four sisters, Lucille Lamons, Florence Fitzgerald, Gertrude Kourbelas and infant Alice Beveridge.