Photo courtesy of Reed & Benoit Funeral Home Inc. - Watertown
Mar 13, 1943 - Feb 22, 2026
May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
Lynn Calhoun
February 25, 2026 | Watertown, NY | Friend
In loving memory of a wonderful person.
Bill Barnhart
February 25, 2026
Robert, So very sorry for your loss of your dear aunt Beverly. Apparently she lived a very full and gratifying Christian life.
Michel Rainville
February 25, 2026
Sorry for your loss! She will be missed!
Sara Getman
February 24, 2026 | Watertown, NY | Friend
bev was my best friend when moving to the park she was a very good neighbor she spent alot of time at my home she helped my husband many times before he passed she was a great help to me she was missed when she moved to the nursing home and i will be missed my condolences go out to the famiy i pray that god blesses each one of you with his comfort and love love and prayers yvonne evans rip my good friend
yvonne evans
February 24, 2026 | Watertown, NY | Friend
Joanne, So sorry to hear about your sister. May she RIP.
Sharon Malaney
February 24, 2026 | Watertown, NY | Friend
I got to know Beverly when I moved up here to Watertown through our church Grace Wesleyan. She would attend the church Bible studies often. When she went to the Samaritan Keep home, she attended the protestant services that I officiated there and I would visit her afterwards. She will be missed. My condolences to the family.
Rev. Ben Mackey
February 24, 2026 | Watertown, NY | Friend
Sincere condolences to the family.
Beth Guiles
February 24, 2026 | Star Lake, NY | Family
WATERTOWN, NY – Beverly J. Dalton, 82, formerly of 933 LeRay St., passed away on Sunday, February 22, 2026, at Samaritan Keep Home.
Born in Carthage, New York, on March 13, 1943, Beverly was the third child born to Cyril and Marion (Barnhardt) Dalton.
She received her early education from a one-room schoolhouse while living with her grandparents, Lucy and Herbert Barnhardt. She enjoyed picking berries for her grandmother, helping her uncle Gerald with haying and milking, and riding horses.
In the early 1960s, she was educated by the Sisters of St. Joseph, which she was blessed and grateful for.
At age 18, she wanted to enter the Sisters of St. Joseph, so she worked to complete her last year of high school at Mater Dei College. Then, she earned her bachelor’s degree in early education from SUNY Potsdam. In 1964, she went to Dannemora to teach in the first grade for 15 years, which was the joy of her life.
In 1976 Beverly served as a Captain of the United States Army Nurse’s Core and Jefferson County Public Health until her honorable discharge and retirement due to ill health in 2003.
Bev was a eucharistic minister at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, an associate of the Sisters of St. Josephs and a member of the Beta Sigma Phis sorority.
She is survived by her sister Joanne Rice-Hurd, NJ, her nephews Robert Dalton, Daniel Dalton and Denver Dalton. Besides her parents, she is predeceased by her sisters Patricia Carlson and Sharon Dalton, her brothers Larry and Gary Dalton, and a half-brother Edwin Davis.
Services will be held for the convenience of the family. Entombment will be in the Glenwood Mausoleum. Arrangements are with the Reed & Benoit Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be made at www.reedbenoit.com.
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