BEVERLEE MAE REIMERS/ROBERT “BOB” REIMERS

LAMAR- No services are planned at this time for Beverlee Mae Reimers, 86, who died Sunday, July 9, 2023 and Robert “Bob” William Reimers, 93, who died Tuesday, July 11, 2023, both at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada, Mo.

Arrangements are under the direction of Konantz Warden Funeral Home, Lamar.

Online condolences may be left at www.konantzwarden.com.

Mr. Reimers was born Dec. 28, 1929, in Chicago Heights, Ill., to William and Emma Reimers. He was a 1947 graduate of Peotone High School and a 1949 graduate of Gallagher Business School. He worked at International Harvester in Kankakee, Ill. from 1949 to 1955, except for 1951 to 1953 when he served in the U.S. Army. He met and married his wife, Beverlee Mae Dion, in 1955 while working in the office at International Harvester. He moved to Chicago, Ill. to work for an auto dealership in 1955 and then to California from 1963 to 1970, where he worked as the controller until he acquired his own Chrysler agency. He purchased a Datsun-Jeep franchise in 1976 in Safford, Ariz. and remained there until he sold the dealership, retired and moved to Texas in 1985. In 1990, he and his wife Beverlee moved to Lamar.

Mrs. Reimers was born July 13, 1936, in Kankakee, Ill. to Phillip and Mae (St Germain) Dion. She was a 1955 high school graduate and then worked as a secretary at International Harvester in Kankakee, where she met and married her husband Bob in 1955. She and her husband moved to California in 1963 where she worked in their auto dealership in California and Arizona as the office manager and insurance agent. They moved to Fredericksburg, Texas in 1985 and then to Lamar in 1990, where they sold collectibles and books. Mrs. Reimers was an avid reader and collector.

They were both members of the Lamar United Methodist Church.

They are survived by her daughter, Gay Reimers, Salem, Ore.