Beverley was born in Fresno and moved to San Mateo as a youngster. She attended Borel and Baywood Elementary Schools, Lawrence Junior High and graduated from San Mateo High School. Bev graduated from San Jose State and became a teacher in San Mateo, initially teaching 2nd and 5th grades at George Hall, then Lakeside. She moved to Middle School at Abbott and finally Bowditch, teaching Social Studies. She taught in the school district for 32 years.
During her career teaching, she took a sabbatical to teach children of US military in Germany for one year, and signed up for another tour several years later.
During your life, Bev had an adventurous nature and traveled extensively throughout the world, visiting Europe several times, China and cruising Asia as well as several North American areas.
Golf was a passion and after retiring, Bev moved to Lake of the Pines in Auburn, to enjoy retirement, travel and play golf 3 - 4 times a week. In 2017, she returned to San Mateo and lived at Sterling Court until her death.
Bev is preceded in death by her parents, Michael and Dolly Phillips, her sister, Shirlee McMills and brother-in-law, Larry McMills . She is survived by her nephew, Randy McMils, niece, Connie Clabaugh (John), grand niece, Jenny Clabaugh, Jill Hackler (Nick) and great nephews. Cole and Mason Hackler.
Funeral Arrangements: St Matthew’s Catholic Church Chapel, 1 Notre Dame Road, San Mateo, CA, January 23, 2026 at 11:00 a.m.
Keep the discussion civilized. Absolutely NO
personal attacks or insults directed toward writers, nor others who
make comments. Keep it clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd,
racist or sexually-oriented language. Don't threaten. Threats of harming another
person will not be tolerated. Be truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone
or anything. Be proactive. Use the 'Report' link on
each comment to let us know of abusive posts. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. Anyone violating these rules will be issued a
warning. After the warning, comment privileges can be
revoked.
Please purchase a Premium Subscription to continue reading.
To continue, please log in, or sign up for a new account.
We offer one free story view per month. If you register for an account, you will get two additional story views. After those three total views, we ask that you support us with a subscription.
A subscription to our digital content is so much more than just access to our valuable content. It means you’re helping to support a local community institution that has, from its very start, supported the betterment of our society. Thank you very much!
(0) entries
Sign the guestbook.
Log In
Keep the discussion civilized. Absolutely NO personal attacks or insults directed toward writers, nor others who make comments.
Keep it clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.
Don't threaten. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated.
Be truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone or anything.
Be proactive. Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts.
PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.
Anyone violating these rules will be issued a warning. After the warning, comment privileges can be revoked.