Beverly Bowman

Birthplace

• Maywood, CA

Occupations

• ·         While the other siblings were in school, she took butter her mom had churned to the neighbors to sell ($.25 per pound).
• ·         Managed a little dress and gift shop

Accidents / Hardships

• Teve and Bev (age 4) were vigorously sliding around the rim of the bathtub while taking a bath.  Bev fell out backward and landed in a large earthen glass bowl which was used as the bathroom sink.  The bowl broke into many pieces and made a large cut on her back. Izetta described it like a "Watermelon cut open" 
• Fell off a small day couch and broke her collar bone
• While helping her dad prepare a meal in the little sheep camp trailer she whacked open her finger with his butcher knife.
• One morning she ran to the kitchen to sit on the old black kitchen range oven door to get warm as they usually did.  She pulled up her skirt so she wouldn't wrinkle it and sat down on the red-hot stove that must have been stoked earlier that usual. 
• The kids went up into the mountains for an all day picnic, they ran up and down little canyons.  She ran down a hill and couldn't stop and hit her head on the sharp trunk of the tree.  

Hobbies / Interests

• ·         writing, poetry
• ·         fashionable, classy

Dating / Spouse

• ·         While working 10 miles from home she commuted back and forth on the Trailways Bus.  One day a tall, handsome bus driver showed up on the schedule I took to work.  It only took two or three trips for me to decide that I needed to get better acquainted with him" . She married Jim Spencer  in February of 1949 and left for Boise to begin their life together.

Favorite Childhood Things

• Exploring, hiking, picnicking, winter sports in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains.

Schooling

• ·         Attended Honeyville School House, Jefferson High School (Portland, Oregon), intention of attending college at BYU, she had even sent a deposit to stay at Knight Hall in Provo, UT  but met a tall bus driver on her commute to work and plans changed.

Interesting Fact

• ·        First to be born in a hospital.
• ·        Her name was chosen from the Beverly Hills Hotel sign which was seen from their home.
• ·        One day her Dad brought her an orphaned lamb to take care of.
• ·        Made over on Joe Ann and turned her from a tomboy into a quite a beautiful young lady! J

 Children

• ·         3 children –

o   Deborah

o   Connie

o   Stephen

Event / Memories

• ·         She remembers helping her mother clean and shine the glass shades of the coal-oil lamps in their Honeyville house by the pond.
• ·         One very special time I shared with my father was while he was out herding sheep.  She took her turn camping overnight with her dad in his little sheep camp trailer.  The night was cut short when she cut her finger while helping to prepare dinner.  She felt so bad that her dad had to take her home.