Age 96
The only child of Claude and Alice Callan Replogle, Sister Beverly Ann grew up spending time in Washington, D.C. and Kansas, where she enjoyed playing with her eleven boy cousins.
She attended Mount Saint Agnes College in Baltimore, Maryland, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in history before entering the Sisters of Mercy in Baltimore, Maryland, at the age of 22. She began teaching at Mount Washington Country School, an elementary military school in Maryland, where she remembered being “quite a strict” teacher of boys. She then taught at two all-girls schools, St. Vincent’s Academy in Savannah, Georgia, and Mercy High School in Baltimore, Maryland.
After earning a master’s degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she taught at Mt. St. Agnes College, in Baltimore, Maryland. Beverly held administrative posts at the Baltimore College of Commerce and the Loyola College Columbia campus.
When her parents’ health declined, she relocated to Florida to help. While she was there, she became a supervisor in the recreation department of the City of St. Petersburg, Florida. She remained in Florida engaged in adult education and recreation until she retired to Mercy Convent in Savannah, Georgia, in 2016.
Sister Beverly recalled teaching classes on the closed-circuit television when that was quite a new and unusual dimension of education. She said she taught a class in cooking with a microwave, when she had never used a microwave herself before she taught! Her influence on students was lasting, as shown by the fact that women who had known her as a teacher in the 60s still kept in touch with her in 2025.