Beverly Joan Reimers was born to Wayne and Eva Reimers of Custer City, Okla., on Sept. 14, 1946, and died in Oklahoma City, Okla., on April 29, 2020.
Raised on a country farm, she rode the school bus to a country school in Arapaho, Okla., for 12 years with less than 20 students in her graduating class in 1964. Joan graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Okla., with an…