Beverly Ruth Keeler passed away peacefully on September 27, 2005, at Brookside Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Webster, Massachusetts.

Bev was born July 11, 1936, in Whitinsville to Ruth Campbell and Robert F. Keeler. Bev graduated from Northbridge High School in 1954 where she was a cheerleader and active in Girl Scouts. In 1958, she graduated from Framingham State College with a degree in Education. She was proud to be the Class President and organized many reunions after graduation. She received her master's degree from Worcester State.

After graduating, Bev started her teaching career in Northbridge followed by 4 years in Upper Darby, PA but her pride and joy was spending 33 years at the Mendon-Upton School District. She enjoyed working with the students and loved her colleagues. She always had a story to tell about her adventures in teaching including her pants falling down in class!

Bev contributed to the community in her many volunteer roles including Friends of Northbridge Elders, Whitinsville Woman’s Club, Northbridge Board of Registrars and United Presbyterian Church. Bev loved people along with a good lobster! She spent many summers at her cottage on Squam Lake and later vacationed on the coast of Maine. She enjoyed reading and always believed what she read even if it came from the National Enquirer.

Bev was predeceased by her parents and brother, Robert (Bobby). She leaves her nephew, Bruce Keeler (Sheila Dever), niece Candance Olsen (Mike), sister-in-law Karen Nagle and cousins Judith Condrate (Robert) and Linda St. John (James). Though she never had children of her own, she spoiled her friends' children and considered them hers including the Aldrich, Barry, Greene/Hackathorn, and Igo families.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the United Presbyterian Church, 7 Spring Street, Whitinsville, MA 01588, to the attention of the Marion Boyd Endowment Fund.

A funeral service will be held on Friday October 24, 2025, at 11 AM in the United Presbyterian Church, Cottage Street, Whitinsville, with a burial to follow at Pine Grove Cemetery, 241 Linwood Ave., Whitinsville.