Beverly Stark

Saturday, March 10, 2012

CHARLESTON -- Beverly Dianne Chandler Stark, 67, died March 8, 2012, at her home.

Born Dec. 12, 1944, at Jonesboro, Ark., to the late J.C. and M. Ernestine House Chandler, she was a 1962 graduate of Charleston High School. She had worked for the Charleston R-1 School District a number of years. A graduate of Arkansas State University at Jonesboro, she was a registered nurse and had been employed by St. Bernard Hospital and the Methodist Hospital in Jonesboro before returning to Charleston where she was employed as a nurse for the Mississippi County Detention Center in Charleston.

She married Charles L. Stark who survives of Charleston.

Also surviving are: one son, Charles Matthew Stark of Charleston; one sister, Helen L. Chandler Ezzell of Bertrand; and some nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by one brother, Jimmy J. Chandler, and one sister, Dody Hook.

Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until time of the memorial service at 2 p.m. Monday at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. Jon Archie, pastor of the Elm Street Baptist Church of Charleston, will officiate.

Burial will follow in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery near Charleston.

Online condolences may be shared at www.mcmiklefuneralhome.com.

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Memorial contributions

may be made to:

American Heart Association

104 Corporate Lake Drive

Columbia, MO 65203