Beverly Jo Nelson died July 18. She was 85.
Beverly Jo Nelson, died peacefully July 18, 2011, surrounded by family. She had been cared for at Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters Care Center in Huntington, Ind.
She was born Jan. 4, 1926, in Spokane, to Stanley and Edith Hodgman, and spent her youth in Oregon and Montana. She received a bachelor's degree in pre-med from the University of Montana and a master's degree in education from Columbia University in New York. After raising her children, she became a member of the Portland Catholic Worker, a dedicated volunteer at Sisters Of The Road Cafe from its beginning in 1979 and taught at Portland Community College and Lents Education Center, until her retirement in 2000.
She is survived by her children, Sr. Mary Jo Nelson, OLVM of Indiana, Alodie Didier (Don) and Genevieve Nelson of Oregon; Michael Nelson (Tanis) of California; grandchildren, Dorian Barnhart, Joanna Trotter, Tara Uziel, Lauren Didier, Larry Didier and Lindsey Nelson; and great-grandchildren, Sasha Barnhart, Micah and Scarlet Uziel, Aubrey Trotter and Isaiah and Larry Jr. Didier
