Athens Beverly Irene (Cochran) Schumacher, 94, of Athens, Ohio, passed away at Kimes Nursing & Rehab Center on March 10, 2025. Beverly was born September 20, 1931, to Alfretta (Sayre) Cochran and Eugene Rook Cochran. Beverly was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Dale Edward Schumacher. They had one daughter, Deborah Schumacher Lewis, who also preceded her in death. Beverly is survived by a son-in-law, Don Lewis; two nephews, Phillip Charles Cochran of Charleston, South Carolina, and Ronald Eugene Tschudy (wife, Marlene) of Dover, Ohio; two nieces, Candee Leigh Cochran Abercrombie and Joy Dee (Dee Dee) Cochran Harkey; special friends, Tarry L. Hall and Stewart Hall, Jr.; and many, many other friends and admirers. Beverly graduated from Dover High School in Dover, Ohio, in 1949. Beverly studied at Ohio University and worked for Southeast Ohio History Center (SOHC). In a newspaper article about Beverly written by Tom O'Grady, Director of Outreach at SOHC, in 2022,

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