Beverly Nadine Stump, 86 of Gorham died peacefully surrounded by her family on Monday November 12, 2018. She was born in Seattle Washington on June 8, 1932. Her family soon moved to Southern California where she was raised with her three siblings. She was the first born daughter of Calvin and Grace Smith. Beverly graduated from Inglewood High School, Southern, CA in 1950 and graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 1954. She earned a bachelors degree in social work and a teaching certificate. Beverly met her husband, Walter, in the 1950's when they were both involved with a theater production. They were eventually married and had three children. She first taught first grade in San Ysidro, CA in 1960 and then took time away from teaching to be a mother. In Bloomington, ID in the mid-sixties she ran a children's nursery which helped put her husband Walter through Indiana University Theater PhD program. They moved to Maine in the 1968. In 1972 Beverly returned to teaching. She taught first grade at the George E. Jack Elementary school in Standish for over 20 years. She retired in 1994. She loved each and every one of her students and always had stories to tell her family at the dinner table. Beverly was a gifted mezzo-soprano and sang in many choirs including Pacific Lutheran University where she sang before President Dwight D. Eisenhower. She sang in the Methodist church choir in Gorham and was a member of the Annie Louise Cary music club and acted in several plays. She was also a member of the Irish American Club in Portland from 1985 to 2000. Ms. Stump was always lending a hand to people in need by donating her time and money to charities or just giving an elderly person a ride to the grocery store. In Gorham in the 1970's Beverly made her own tortillas. (you could not buy them in Maine at the time.) Her novel, at the time, Mexican tacos were are constant hit with the kids in Gorham. She was a communicant of St. Anne's Catholic Church in Gorham. Beverly is survived by her three children Greg Stump from Prineville, Oregon, Kim Dionne her husband David Dionne from Gorham, Geoffrey Stump from Basalt, Colorado and her niece Noelle Rand also from Gorham. She is also survived by her seven grandchildren, Joshua, Lindsey, Adam, Kalissa, Ambesa, Morgan and Zani and has a great grand child on the way. A visitation will be held on Friday, November 16, from 4pm to 6pm at the Gorham Chapel of Dolby Blais & Segee, 76 State St., Gorham, ME 04038. A funeral service will begin at 6pm.