Beverly Meal Wagoner

Monday, May 22, 2023

A memorial service for Beverly Meal Wagoner will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 3, 2023, in Waldron, Ind., at the Waldron United Methodist Church. A meal will follow the service.

Beverly died Jan. 10, 2021, and was interred at the Moscow, Ind., cemetery on Sept. 25, 2021.

Born June 1, 1923 in Rush County, Ind., she was the daughter of Chester and Faye (Scull) Meal.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her brothers, Harlan and Stanley; and a sister, Beth Kay Gahimer.

She is survived by her sons, Paul of Medford, Mass., Charles Todd and his wife, Sue, of Rockville, and their daughter, Beth. Other survivors are her sisters, Barbara White of Carthage and Faith Laird of Waldron, and many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.

Beverly graduated from Waldron High School in 1941 and Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in 1944, serving in the Army Nurse Corps in World War II.

She married Kenneth S. Wagoner Dec. 20, 1946.

She was a member of Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church in Greencastle. She was an active volunteer for several organizations and returned to nursing in the 1960s, working for decades in various settings.

She wrote histories of her parents, her Army nursing service and her Aunt Fern. She sought to maintain the connections among her parents’ descendants, and her greatest pleasure was to be surrounded by her extended family.

Bittles and Hurt Funeral Home, Greencastle, facilitated arrangements.