Beverly Levin, 89

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Beverly (Fisher) Levin, died at HopeHealth Hospice, in Providence, on Dec. 7, 2024.

Beverly was born May 7, 1935, in Boston, a daughter of the late Joseph Fisher and Beatrice (Kupferman) Fisher. She was married to the late Dr. Henry Levin, of Providence.

Beverly was a gifted artist as well as scientist. In high school, she was offered a scholarship to the Boston Museum School and had won several science awards. Beverly had to decline the scholarship to help support her family and took a job as a lab assistant at Tufts School of Dental Medicine, where she met Henry.

A devoted wife and mother, she raised her three children while painting gallery-worthy landscapes and chauffeuring her children to a  myriad of activities. However, her longing to further her education remained. When she was in her forties, she returned to school, earning a nursing degree, studying alongside her children, who were in middle and high school, and ultimately earning A’s in her courses. Receiving her nurse’s pin at graduation was one of her proudest moments. After graduation, she worked at The Miriam Hospital as an ICU nurse, became an AIDS educator and ended her career working in a plastic surgeon’s office.

In addition to her husband, Henry, she leaves her sister, Geraldine (Fisher) Jonas; her daughters, Linda Levin-Scherz and her husband, Jeffrey Levin-Scherz, of Belmont, Massachusetts; Lori Broess and her husband, Maarten Broess, of Lincoln; son, Steven Levin and his wife, Shannon Levin, of Duluth, Minnesota; as well as her grandchildren, Alyssa Levin-Scherz, Joshua Levin-Scherz, Jennifer Broess, Erik Broess, Peter Levin, Rebecca Levin, Matthew Levin and Zachary Levin; and three great-grandchildren.