Beverly Joan Schreiber

Beverly Joan Schreiber Beverly Joan Schreiber, age 91, of Buena Park, California, passed away Sunday, January 23, 2022, at the Emanuel Home Care in Riverside, California. She was born on March 24, 1930, in Leonardville, Kansas, the daughter of Floyd Orville and Marie Mae (Dettmer) Kendall. On August 24, 1951, she was married to James Harold Schreiber in Montebello, California. Always called Joan (pronounced JoAnn), she graduated from Leonardville High School where she played basketball and softball. She worked as a telephone operator in Manhattan, KS. In February 1949, she joined her parents in Montebello, CA where she worked as a typist in Los Angeles, CA. She and her parents were visited by James Schreiber who had grown up on a farm near Leonardville and was a Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton at the time. After their marriage, they lived in Santa Fe Springs and eventually Buena Park, California, where she and her husband built a home for their family and lived for over 47 years. She co-owned and did bookwork for a service station in Paramount, California with her husband. She was a Camp Fire Girls' leader for five years in Santa Fe Springs. She enjoyed traveling with her husband, traveling throughout the United States in their RV as well as cruises to Alaska, Hawaii, and the Panama Canal, and bus tours through Europe and Asia. She was a member of the Evangelical United Methodist Church of Whittier, California, for 56 years, serving as a Sunday School Teacher. Joan is survived by two daughters Diane Jeffreys and husband Greg of Modesto, CA and Lori Erickson of Riverside, CA; two grandchildren, Jill Sparkman of Mammoth Lakes, CA and Jason McCallum and wife Elizabeth of Kileen, TX; two great-grandchildren, Noah McCallum, attending Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN and Marisa McCallum of Kileen, TX.; and one brother-in-law, Willard Johnson of Leonardville, KS, two sisters-in-law, Lorene Kendall of Keats, KS and Donna Schreiber of Kansas City, Mo, many nieces, nephews and cousins and a host of friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Schreiber, her parents, her sister Fern Johnson and brother Ronald Kendall, her husbands family and her son-in-law, Ted Erickson. A memorial service at the Evangelical United Methodist Church and interment at the Riverside National Cemetery will be held after the return of her grandson Jason who is currently serving overseas with the Army.