TROY – Beverly Pearl Leavitt passed away peacefully on Friday, May 27, at Brewer Rehabilitation Center, of a brain tumor.

She was born in Dixfield, on Sept. 21, 1927, to the late Stanley and Pauline (Newman) Brooker.

She attended Edward Little High School in Auburn and graduated in the Class of 1946. While there she was a cheerleader for the football team and a drum majorette.

She then went to work as a payroll clerk for Bates Manufacturing in Lewiston until 1949.

On Nov. 30, 1946, she married John Lincoln Leavitt of Lewiston.

She and her husband owned and operated Jack’s Auto Parts in Farmington until 1986, and then moved to Dixmont and ran Leavitts General Store until 1991.

An avid golfer, she became a member at Country View Golf Course and was president of the Women’s League. She loved bowling and tennis and many other sports. First cheering as a student, then mother, then grandmother, then great-grandmother, she attended games of the season. She also enjoyed gardening and playing cards and didn’t mind betting a dime on a full house.

She is survived by her two sisters, Dorothy Scammon of Wales, and Donna Riggs of Waterville; her husband of 58 years, John Leavitt, of Troy; her three sons, Michael and his wife, Terri, and their daughter, Renatta, of Chelmsford, Mass., David and his wife, Paula, of Troy, and their children, Jennifer Leavitt, Lori Foster, Sam Davenport and Jacquelyn Marquis, Andrew and his wife, Sheila, of New Vineyard, and their sons, Daniel, Jonathan and Jason; seven great-grandchildren; and several very special nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by a brother, Henry Brooker, in 2002.

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