Beverly Gleason

Beverly Gleason

Age 91, of Penn Yan, NY, passed away March 12, 2025 peacefully at home.

Bev was born at the family’s home on Italy Hill in Branchport on February 2, 1934, the daughter of Charles and Frances (Andrews) Conley. She was a graduate of Prattsburg‘s High School class of 1951 and continued her education at the Freeman Business School located in Geneva, NY. In the following years Bev worked for the Social Security Administration, the Birkett Mills, and later for the Office of Veteran’s Affairs in Penn Yan. Throughout that time, she also raised five children with her husband, Jim.

Her lifelong passions included music, volunteering, and support of local events, fundraisers, and for those who knew her well, eateries. She was dedicated to acknowledging family and friends life events through a phone call, a card sent, and as a lifelong member of Emmanuel Baptist Church, her support through her faith in the power of prayer.

The family will receive friends and relatives at the Weldon Funeral Home, 102 E. Main St., in Penn Yan on Monday (March 24th) from 5-7pm; and on Tuesday from 12-1pm; followed by a funeral service remembering her life at 1:00pm at the funeral home; and burial at Italy Hill Cemetery.

She is survived by her husband of 71 years, James E. Gleason; five children, Philip Gleason (Joan), Carol Nieves (Richard), Susan Pulver (Paul), Janet Dillon (Dan) and Stephen Gleason; sisters-in-law, Marion Phelps and Helen Conley; brother-in-law, Tom Gleason (Kitty); 14 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and 1 great-great-grandson. She was predeceased by her brothers, Robert and Richard Conley.

Memorial donations in her memory may be made to CareNet and Emmanuel Baptist Church here in Penn Yan, our local P.E.O. Chapter CI or The Arbor Day Foundation.