Beverly Joan Marker |
| Posted 2009-01-27 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Arizona Tuesday, October 3, 1995 Beverly Joan Marker, whose career in newspaper marketing and editing left time for singing in barbershop quartets, died Sunday. She was 63. Marker, who recently chaired the Southern District of Arizona Press Women, died at Northwest Hospital of complications from diabetes. The native of Nashville, Mich., was a homemaker before she moved from Prescott to Tucson in 1965. Marker worked in marketing at Tucson Newspapers from June 1972 until June 1987. As a free-lance writer and editor, she later edited Traditions, an Arizona Daily Star advertising supplement. She also worked as editor of the Clarion, a Tucson women's newspaper, and as a public relations specialist for the Jane Goodall Institute. Marker's pastimes included working on crews of hot-air balloons and singing for four decades with women's barbershop quartets. In Prescott, she founded a barbershop quartet chapter of Sweet Adelines International. Survivors include her husband, Glen Atkins; daughters Jacqua Lin Atkins of Portland, Ore., and Michelle Sweet of Mayer; sons Koby Vaughn Atkins of Canby, Ore., and Brian Allen Atkins of Tucson; and five grandchildren. A memorial service is set for 6 p.m. Thursday at Abbey Funeral Chapel, 3435 N. 1st Ave. The family suggests memorial donations to the Tucson chapter of the American Diabetes Association, 40 N. Swan Road, Tucson, Ariz., 85711. |
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