VETERAN GIVEN DISCHARGE FROM ARMY DUTY
Webster City service veteran has received an honorably discharge from the Army under the point system – Lt. Everett D. Bever.
First Lt. Bever, who served as a bombardier on a heavy bomber in the South Pacific area for 14 months, was discharge after completing four years and five months with the army air corps.
Holder of the distinguished flying cross and air medal with clusters, the lieutenant was last located at Midland, Texas, and was discharged from Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
Source: Daily Freeman Journal, June 13, 1945
Everett Dean Bever was born May 13, 1920 to Frank N. and Leah Robbins Bever. He died Mar. 13, 1996 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Jewell, IA.
Lt. Bever served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II as a bombardier on a B-24 in the South Pacific. He was awarded the Air Medal, Oak Leaf Cluster and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
His Obituary: Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, IA - Mar. 15, 1996
Everett Bever, 75, Jewell, died March 13, 1996, at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Bethesda Lutheran Church in Jewell, with Rev. Tim Nappe officiating. Burial will be at Evergreen Cemetery in Jewell. Soderstrum-Larson Funeral Home in Story City is in charge of arrangements.
Everett Dean Bever, son of Frank and Leah Robbins Bever was born May 13, 1920, in Blairsburg. He was a lifetime Jewell and Webster City resident. He served in the U.S. Army and Air Force in World War II in the South Pacific and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. He made his living as a farmer and retired in 1983. On June 15, 1941, he married Ruth Elizabeth Whaley.
He is survived by his wife; sons and daughters-in-law James E. and Audrey Bever, Dallas, Texas, William D. and Sandy Bever, Sherman, Texas; daughters and son-in-law, Ann E. Thomas, Conway, Ark., Kathy and Mike Ose, Story City; seven grandchildren; sister, Lila Hunter, Greene; and brother, Franklin Bever, Webster City. He was preceded in death by his parents and a granddaughter, Beth Ann Robinson.
Mr. Bever was a member of Bethesda Lutheran Church in Story City, The American Legion, and had been a city council member in Jewell.
Source: ancestry.com
