Beverly Ann Kober, age 83, of Lake Leelanau passed away peacefully on July 6, 2024.
Beverly was born on January 27, 1941, in Worcester, MA to Majorie and Eugene Wood.
She attended Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, MA for two years of nursing prerequisites before transferring to nursing school. Beverly met the love of her life, Adelbert Kober, at the freshman picnic in the fall of 1959. They began dating a year later and married on June 21, 1964. Beverly graduated with an associate’s degree in nursing in 1963 from the New England Sanitarium and Hospital in Stoneham, MA. The couple relocated to Detroit, MI when Bert was hired as a radiation physicist. Beverly then earned her bachelor’s and master’s in nursing from Wayne State University and became a clinical instructor of community health nursing at Wayne State University. Bert went on to work at three of the “Big Three” Detroit auto companies, as a mechanical engineer.
