Funeral services will be held July 16, at the Northside Assembly Church in Jefferson for Beverly Louise Luft, 72, of Charles City, formerly of Jefferson. Interment will be at Franklin Township Cemetery in Cooper.
Beverly Louise McCray Luft was born July 18, 1949, in Waltham, MA. She passed away with her family by her side at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN, on July 6, 2022 at the age of 72 years.
Bev graduated from Stoughton High School in Stoughton, MA, June 7, 1968. During the course of her growing, up she had worked at her mother’s two different restaurant’s named Peter Piper 1 and 2 where she was the hostess and cashier. During her time in high school, she had worked at a movie theater in Boston where they would premier movies and she had seen several movie stars. After graduation she moved to Houston, TX, and stayed with family before going to Ventura, CA, to meet up with her brother.
She met the love her life, Leon Jurgen Luft, on a blind date through her brother James McCray, on June 14, 1969, in Ventura. Leon and Bev were united in marriage on Jan. 10, 1970, in Las Vegas, NV. While Leon was still in the military, they took time to travel, and they had traveled across the United States four different times together. She thought that Iowa was the best place out of all their travels. Leon was honorably discharged from the service on Jan. 13, 1973, and they had moved back to Iowa where they had lived.
Throughout the years of living in Iowa her mother-in-law taught her to cook, bake, can, and other farm type activities. They had lived on an acreage before Leon passed and then she had moved the family to Jefferson in 1981. She continued to live in Jefferson for the next 39 years before moving to Charles City to be closer to family.
During the time raising Lenny and Amy in Jefferson she worked at Trinity Lutheran Church and at Casey’s General Store. During this time, she volunteered her time at the school as an aide. She followed Lenny and Amy through the years to a variety of sporting events. She loved to walk, bike, swim, spend time doing computer activities, reading her Bible, and doing puzzle books.
She loved to spend time with her six grandchildren and follow all their activities.
People that have preceded her in death are her husband Leon Luft; her mother Francis Louise Brooks Sanders; her brother James McCray; and her grandson Logan Luft.
Living family is Leonard and Wendy Luft of Charles City, and their children Landon and Lilly; and Amy and Daniel Graham of Casper, WY, and their children Eric, Emma, and Thomas.
Slininger-Schroeder Funeral Home in Jefferson is assisting the family. Online condolences may be left at www.sliningerschroeder.com.
