Beverly J. ( Lester) Schutt

Beverly Schutt, 86, of Clarion passed away Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at Iowa Specialty Hospital in Clarion.

Funeral services for Beverly Schutt will be held at 11:30 AM on Saturday, May 23, 2015 at Ewing Funeral Home, 1801 Central Avenue East in Clarion with Pastor Grant Woodley officiating.

A closed casket visitation will be held one hour prior to services at the funeral home on Saturday.  Graveside services will be private.

Beverly Jane (Lester) Schutt was born in Clarion, Iowa on March 30, 1929. She was born to Frank and Violette (Huntley) Lester. Bev was the third of the Lester’s four children and their only daughter. The Lester family was Methodist in their faith.  She attended multiple country schools during her youth and finished her high school education in Woolstock, graduating in 1947.

Bev moved to Clarion following high school and was married to Eldred (Tiny) Schutt in June the following year. They were the first couple to be married in the newly constructed Methodist church in Clarion. The couple has resided in Clarion since that time. The two were high school sweethearts. June 24th would have marked 67 years of marriage.  Tiny joked that including the time they dated, they were together over for over seventy years. Their marriage was blessed with two sons.

Shortly after their marriage, Bev converted to Eldred’s Lutheran faith and the couple raised their family in that tradition.  Bev was primarily a homemaker, but over the years worked for Northwestern Bell, Shupe / Urness Hardware and the Clarion School system. When the boys were young, she was also active in their interests being a Cub Scout Den mother and related church activities. Bev had a special talent for card games and was especially fond of the many bridge circles in which she participated.

Survivors include her husband, Eldred, Pauline Lester (sister-in-law) of Ventura, IA., Her children include Steven, Yale (Diane), step-grandchildren: Todd (Sue) Prehm of Lenexa, KS., Melissa ‘Missy’ (Richard) Walls of Columbia, MO., Mike (Amber) Prehm of Oklahoma City, OK., and Cynthia (Brett) Poling of St. Francis, KS., and 15 step-great-grandchildren.