Beverly Lawrence Douglass passed away Thursday, December 29, 2011 at Y.R.M.C. of natural causes. She was born on December 29, 1919 in Forestville, Connecticut. Beverly immigrated to California at the age of 6 with her parents and remembered going across the plank bridge in the Dunes and stayed in San Bernardino, California. She met her husband Vincent K. Douglass while attending nursing school in the late 1930's. They got married in March of 1941; Vincent was in the U.S Army Air Corp. In October of 1941 her husband went to Clark Field and ended up stranded in the Philippines, in Mindoro Island until 1945. During the time her husband was in Philippine Islands, Beverly worked as a "Rose the Riveter", and completed nurse training, while pregnant with her first and only child. After the war they moved to Hillsboro, Oregon where Beverly worked at the local hospital and was general manger for a Quarings Nursing Home, until they retired. After their retirement in the late 1960's, they traveled around the county and finally settled in Yuma in 1974. She was an active member of the Foothills Garden Club. Both remained here in Yuma for the remainder of their life. Beverly is survived by her son, Lawrence J. Douglass; 3 grandchildren; and 5 great-grandchildren. No services are scheduled.