Beaver

Funeral Services for Gerald Lee Beaver are scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022 at 11 a.m. at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round Top with interment to follow at the Florida Chapel Cemetery. A visitation is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 16, 2022 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Fayette Memorial Funeral Home in La Grange.

Gerald Beaver, 87, passed away on Sept. 11, 2022 in Austin. He was born on Sept. 25, 1934 to Lewis Franklin Beaver and Irene “Thomas” Beaver in Layland, West Virginia. He joined the United States Air Force in 1952 and was based in Japan during the Korean War. His 40-year career with the airlines allowed him to travel the world and he greatly enjoyed the camaraderie of the cockpit crews. Gerald earned several awards including one for a top-secret mission of flying troops into Desert Storm in 1991 and for piloting a hijacked plane in which his was shot.

After his career with the National and Pan Am Airlines, he enjoyed his later years with his wife of 52 years, Wendy White Beaver, on their property in Round Top. Together, they loved to travel and went on twelve cruises with family and friends. He enjoyed having coffee with friends, his land, cows and cow dogs. He had a great sense of humor and was always joking.

He will be dearly missed by his family and friends. Gerald is preceded in death by his parents, Franklin and Irene Beaver; his daughter and son-in-law, Sharon and Ronald Davidson; grandson, James Stephen Smith; along with four brothers and six sisters.

He survived by his wife, Wendy White Beaver; daughters, Gail Rodriguez (Luis), Lynn Popkowski, Leslie Smith (Dennis), and Lisette Lammers (Kirby); grandchildren, Christopher Stiglets, Danielle Painter, David Rodriguez, Elisabeth Rodriguez, Kayleigh Popkowski, and Matthew Smith; great grandchildren, Marissa Rodriguez, Mia Rodriguez, and Hendrix Rodriguez.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round Top, Tunnels to Towers or the Gardenia Janssen Animal Shelter. Family and friends can view and sign the guest book online at www.fayettememorialfuneralhome. com.

Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Fayette Memorial Funeral Home of La Grange.