Join us in celebrating the life of Beverley Thomas DelGrosso who was a mother, a wife, a volunteer, and educated the most vulnerable among us. She lived eighty-nine purposeful years crossing over quietly in her sleep on October 25, 2024. This world was blessed with her dedication to educating others, including her two children Holly and Bill, and her husband of 64 years Fausto and her grandsons Brett and Justin who survive her.
Beverley was born in Hazelton, Pennsylvania October 12, 1935, was educated at Bloomsburg University, and began her teaching career in Easton. Along the way, met a handsome US Air Force veteran Fausto DelGrosso who sold her the first car she ever bought. They married and they moved to Florida as pioneers in special education and the space program. Their careers then took them to Maryland, and back to Pennsylvania. Their travels took them all over the world and our Country.
Beverley rose early, poured herself a light and sweet coffee, made lesson plans, was on her feet teaching special needs children, took a nap, and continued the rest of her day. She volunteered long hours for things that mattered including the St Clare’s Parish (North Palm Beach, Florida) Church Bazaar, gave Cursillo talks, chaired events for the Gettysburg, PA Women’s Club, and was a Girl Scout Leader. The primary task as a Girl Scout leader was keeping her husband and children from swiping boxes of cookies stored in her living room during the annual cookie drives.
Her loving husband Fausto once stated at a new year’s eve party that his resolution would be to love his wife more. She was worthy of that because she gave that love to many. She had such great respect for the mother her daughter Holly had become. She was the neighbor who you wanted to talk with on the stoop. The various missionaries that knocked on our door found that out: she did most of the talking. She loved a Burger King chocolate milkshake; if you asked for just a sip she would give it to you.
Her dedication to her students was memorable, and added value to every classroom she was in. She volunteered to set up the religious education program at her parish and was replaced by a full-time person. When she left her special education program to move to another school she was replaced by a PhD.
Andy Rooney once said, “Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” Beverley Thomas DelGrosso was that teacher.
We appreciate your generosity of thoughts and prayers for our family. In lieu of flowers, Beverley would have loved and appreciated gifts to the Bloomberg University Scholarship funds.