Beverly Lynne Halbauer

On July 14, 2023, Beverly Lynne Halbauer passed away at the age of 83 after a long battle with dementia. Beverly is survived by her two daughters, Tracey Guzman and Stacey Pipp. She was also grandmother to two grandsons, Matthew Halbauer-Zsifkov and Desmond Pipp and her great grandson Jaxsun Halbauer-Zsifkov. She loved her children but took even more pleasure in her grandsons and showered them with so much love and could always give them back! Beverly also loved her son in-law Joseph Guzman very much.
Beverly was born in Lima, Ohio on October 6, 1939, and raised in Gomer, Ohio by her parents, Ralph and Ruth Bumford (deceased). She attended Bowling Green State University and, as a young lady, she scored highest in a national history exam and won a trip to Rome. She had an incredible mind and an impeccable work ethic.
Beverly worked full-time at Grace Sinai and ended her career at the DMC in Detroit in the Immunology lab. Beverly had a very long career in microbiology and immunology and had very dear friendships with her close co-workers for her entire career. Although she worked full-time, she made every moment outside of work special for her daughters by either attending museums, movies, doing arts and crafts, shopping or just spending some quality time at home. She finally retired in the winter of 2006 but lost her husband, Werner Halbauer, to cancer that spring. She filled her time with learning to use a quilting machine and loved making clothes and blankets for the family. She also joined the Troy Community Center and made several friends and began to have social time with her new crew.
When her second grandson, Desmond, was born the year after she retired, he helped to mend her broken heart. She threw all her love and energy into spending as much time with him as she could. She enjoyed making learning a game – helping his parents teach him to read, write, and do math before kindergarten. To this day, Desmond excels at school.
Beverly was a selfless woman and never spoke ill of anyone, she is probably the kindest, warm person in this world.
She had four stepsiblings and loved them very much and had great relationships with them all, and also loved her nieces and nephews dearly. Stephen Hamilton, Douglas Hamilton (deceased), Candy Freels and Robin Hooker. She also has a biological brother, Jon David Bumford.
As a young woman, she was a fashionista and never left the house unless she was completely put together like Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. True story. In the mid 60's she went on vacation on her own and stayed at the famed Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. One night she was sitting at the bar and a gentleman had the bartender send her a drink. Later, that man asked Beverly to dance, and they literally danced the night away and actually cleared the dance floor because they were both such exceptional dancers. At the end of the evening, that gentleman asked Beverly to marry him, and she said yes. While engaged to one another, she would travel from Toledo, and he would travel from Toronto and they would meet in London, Ontario. Beverly and Werner are now together once again and probably dancing the night away in each other's arms.
~Lovingly written by the family.