Longtime resident Beverly Jean Mischer passed away on May 30 in her Pacific Palisades home. She was 69. Beverly was born in Sandusky, Ohio to parents Rolland and Elsa Meyers. She spent her childhood playing on Lake Erie with her cousins and younger sister, Christine. She attended Texas Lutheran College in Seguin, Texas where she received a degree in English, and met and married Don Mischer in 1960. She and Don traveled the world together, living in Saudi Arabia for a year, before starting a family in Washington, D.C. After living in Manhattan for six years (Don was an entertainment director and producer), they moved to the Palisades in 1977 where they raised their two daughters, Jennifer and Heather. Beverly loved making her home in the Palisades and was an active member of the community, serving as co-leader of two Girl Scout troops and president of AFS at Palisades High (which Jennifer attended). She frequently hiked the Temescal Canyon trails and always had a front row seat at the Fourth of July parade. Beverly went on to earn her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and taught communications at Loyola Marymount University. She was a generous supporter of the arts, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles and the Democratic Party. She loved to travel and visited parts of the world she said as a little girl she never imagined she would see. Beverly has touched our lives deeply with her great sense of adventure, her wealth of knowledge and wit, and her abundant, effervescent spirit. She is survived by her two daughters and her former husband. A memorial will be held at the Bel- Air Bay Club on Friday, June 6 at 1 p.m.
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