Beverly Ann Treneman

Beverly Ann Bartels TrenemanFeb. 18, 1931 - July 11, 2019
Beverly Ann Bartels Treneman was born on Feb. 18, 1931, to Mildred and Carl Bartels in Dubuque, Iowa, the eldest of four sisters. She loved music and played the piano, bass fiddle and bagpipes.  After graduating from Dubuque Senior High School, she attended the University of Iowa and graduated with a degree in occupational therapy.
As a member of the university’s Highlanders, the only all-woman Scottish bagpipe marching band in the world, Beverly toured Scotland, England, and France in 1952.  At university, she met her husband, Dr. James D. Treneman. They married in 1954 and settled in McMinnville in 1959 after brief stints in Fresno, California, and Harlingen, Texas. She and Jim had four daughters. He died in 1977, after 23 years of marriage.
Beverly was a master quilter and accomplished seamstress, keen gardener, cook, businesswoman, and bridge player. In partnership with four other women, she ran The Bookshop in downtown McMinnville for 20 years. She contributed countless hours to the First Presbyterian Church, Juliette House, Daughters of the American Revolution, PEO and other charities throughout her life.
She was a woman of many interests, travelling widely, as far afield as Turkey, Tahiti, and the Galapagos Islands. She and her companion of many years, Jim Wixson, visited Europe and travelled throughout the US in their Model A Ford. She visited almost every National Park, reading extensively on the history and culture of the places she visited.  Beverly explored new activities throughout her life:  canoeing, rafting, skiing, and snorkeling. She loved to collect and was always ready to go ‘antiquing’. Her home was full of the fragrance of flowers and the aroma of cooking, art and music.
Beverly’s strength of character, love of family, sense of humor, interest in learning and compassionate nature will be remembered by all who knew her.
Beverly is survived by her four daughters, Ann Treneman Berkoff, Nancy Treneman, Joan Horton, and Mary Maeve Holden, grandchildren Gillan Allan, Vanessa Charman, James Treneman, Lyle Horton, Elaine Grimps, and Max Holden, two great-grandchildren, and her two sisters, Nancy Wendt of Klamath Falls, Oregon and Carole Loetscher of Dubuque, Iowa.
All are welcome to attend her funeral at 11am on Saturday, 20 July, at the First Presbyterian Church, 390 NE 2nd Street, McMinnville, with refreshments afterwards. There will be a graveside ceremony at 3pm at Smith Cemetery, 2 miles south of Monmouth on Helmick Road. Farnstrom Mortuary of Independence is handling the arrangements.  Share your memories and condolences at FarnstromMortuary.com.
Contributions In her memory can be made to the James D. Treneman Family Practice Fund at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon.
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