Beverly Speer

Beverly Sue Lizenbee Speer passed away peacefully at her home in Paragould on July 9, 2025. She was born to Herman Lizenbee and Audrey Oliver Lizenbee at Malden, Missouri, on March 4, 1948. She was retired from Regions Bank in Paragould. She was preceded in death by her parents and her siblings: Donald Summers, Kenneth Lizenbee, and Joyce Hall. She is survived by her son, Doug Speer of Cabot, Arkansas, and her daughter Mona Cavaness of Manila, Arkansas.

She is also survived by her grandchildren: Morgan Speer and Madison Crittenden, Jonesboro; Ella Speer, Caden Speer, Riley Speer, and Hudson Speer, Cabot; Adam Harper, Paragould; Steven Harper, Springfield, Missouri; Amanda Cavaness, Steele, Missouri; six great-grandchildren and a special "sister", Judy Everett; and a host of family and friends.

Beverly took the role of matriarch seriously. She would pick up and carry the mantel for the family, and she balanced everyone. She shaped her children, helping them to be the people they needed to be for the future. She was a woman of strength and compassion. She loved her family with all of her heart and soul. She will be remembered as being "stubborn" and "independent" and to her children, she was a hero.

A funeral service will be held Saturday, July 12, 2025, at Heath Funeral Home in Paragould, Arkansas. Visitation will begin at 12:00 noon with a service at 1:00 p.m. Interment will be at Woodlawn Cemetery in Campbell, Missouri.

"Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away." James 4:14