Beverley Ann P. Taylor

November 24, 1951 - June 15, 2025

Beverley Taylor, 73, of Middletown, Ohio passed away peacefully on Sunday, June 15, 2025 at Atrium Medical Center, in the presence of family and friends due to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). She is the daughter of Minnie (Williams) Price and Eldridge Price of Johnson City, TN, both of whom preceded her in death.

Taylor earned her B.S. in Physics from East Tennessee State University in 1973 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Clemson University in 1978. She joined the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in 1979 and taught college level Physics for her entire career, teaching at Denison University and Jackson State University before going to Miami University, where she taught for 37 years at the Hamilton Regional Campus before retiring. Her contributions to AAPT through the AIP Meggers Project Award Committee, and the AAPT Committees on Physics in Pre-High School Education and Women in Physics were recognized with the Homer L. Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service to AAPT (1997) and the AAPT Fellow award (2014).

She enjoyed camping, reading, and baking during her retirement. She was an amateur radio operator for more than 40 years and was active in the training of new amateur radio operators. She greatly enjoyed baking deserts for meetings of the Dial Radio Club of Middletown. Beverley is survived by her devoted husband of 53 years, Barney Taylor, originally of Elizabethton, TN.

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