Beverly Irene Smith was born July 15, 1933, in Dunlap, Iowa, to Charles J. and Zara Keehner Smith. Beverly attended elementary and high schools in Arizona and Iowa, where in 1951 she graduated from Denison High School having served as vice president of her senior class and having received the Bausch-Lomb Science Award, the DAR Gold Medal History Award, and first place in the VFW county essay contest.
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