Beverly Frizzell Magee passed away Saturday, March 23, 2013 surrounded by her family. She was born August 18, 1939, to William David and Ada Frizzell in Union City, Tennessee. Beverly lived in Union City until 1954 when the family moved to Memphis where she was in the first graduating class from White Station High School in 1957. While at White Station she was the first editor of the annual and the first football queen.

Beverly graduated cum laude from Memphis State University (University of Memphis) in 1961. She was named Who's Who among students in American Universities where she served as Senior Judge on the Supreme Court as well as treasurer of Phi Mu Sorority. She came to Dyersburg to teach English where she met and married Milton E. Magee, her husband of 51 years. That marriage was blessed with a son, Milton E. Magee, Jr. (Jennifer), an attorney in Memphis, and a daughter, Maribeth M. Martin (Eric), of Montgomery County, TN.

Beverly was an active member of First Baptist Church in Dyersburg for 51 years, where she served in various positions, including director of Vacation Bible School and a Sunday School teacher for 29 years. She was a Cub Scout and Girl Scout leader, PTA room mother, delivered Meals on Wheels and served in numerous other volunteer capacities.

Beverly loved her family, friends, reading and traveling. Other than her husband and children, she is survived by two sisters, Peggy Karpowicz (Jim) and Diane F. Barger and a sister-in-law, Elizabeth M. Taylor (Ab III). She leaves seven grandchildren that she loved with all her heart. They are Mary Claire, Kathleen, Will and Wen Comperry; Mac and Grant Wheeler and Addison Magee.

Services will be held at First Baptist Church, Dyersburg, Tennessee, on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at noon. Visitation will be held on Monday, March 25, 2013, from 5pm until 8pm and Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at First Baptist Church, from 10:00am until 11:30am with services to follow. The Rev. Mike Hickman will officiate with the Rev. Raymond Boston presiding at graveside.

Pallbearers will be Jay Hollomon, Wayde Jackson, Carter Kirk, Paul Newbill, John David Pride, Ab Taylor IV, Mark Taylor and Dr. Pierce White.

The family requests that memorials be directed to First Baptist Church Building Fund.