Beverly Jane Koch, 91, died on March 24, 2024 in Phoenix, Ariz. She was born on April 22, 1933, to George and Dorothy Morrison in Burlington, in their house on South 5th Street. She graduated Burlington High School and married Richard Earl Koch on July 28, 1951. They had two children, John Koch and Elizabeth Koch.
Her childhood memories of the Great Depression and World War II were laced with fond stories of her older siblings’ lives and loves, her father’s work as a train conductor, and falling in love while in high school with the man she would be married to for almost seventy years until his death on April 10, 2021. She was a bookkeeper for Mendenhall Oil Company and later, Cessford Construction Company. She had a talent for drawing and a love of the arts all her life as well as a gift for singing. Her love for family saw no boundaries, but her passion was the love of her life, her husband Dick Koch.
She is survived by her son, John Richard Koch, and his wife Jeanne Koch of Phoenix, Ariz., her daughter Elizabeth Ann Koch and her husband Patrick Hansen of Alexandria, Ontario, four grandchildren, Michael Koch, Jennifer Koch, Iain Hansen, and Joseph Hansen, three step-grandchildren Christine Bosch, Jessica Decker, and Rusty Manning, six step-great-grandchildren, Carissa, Ares, Arianna, Landon, Kaylynn, and Isaac, sister-in-law Virginia Koch-Sturms, and ex-daughter-in-law Debbie Koch. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews, including Michele Balbort, Colleen Roland, Patrick Cable, Walter Cable, Ann Archer, David Morrison, Judith Walsh, Jim Morrison, Cindy Matthews, Amy Heckenberg, Lynn Daw, Robert Morrison, Lucia Moser, Rachel Kellen, Sarah Manning, Lolly Leferink, Matt Morrison, Chuck Morrison, Glenn Miller, Gayle Shelly, Vicki Augustine, Kathy Dahlsten, and Bill Sturms.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Earl Koch, siblings Gloria Cable, Daniel Morrison, Marianne Parrot, and Richard Morrison, and her parents George and Dorothy Morrison as well as her sister-in-law Pauline Miller.
There will be a visitation at Prugh Funeral Service, 3940 Division St. Burlington, on Sunday, July 7, 2024, from 12 to 5 p.m., and the Internment and celebration of life for both Beverly and Richard Koch will be Monday, July 8, 2024, at Burlington Memorial Park at 2 p.m.