Obituary: Russell Walker Beverly, of Cutchogue, Dies at 47

Info via DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home

Russell Walker Beverly, of Cutchogue, died on May 9 after a nine-month battle against a rare form of brain cancer. He was 47.

Beverly grew up in Weston, Connecticut, and graduated from Weston High School in 1986.

He attended Tulane University were he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and graduated with a Masters of Architecture in 1992.

After graduating, he moved to New York City, where he met his future wife, Alexandra McPeck.

The couple got married on Sept. 11, 1999, in Cutchogue.

He earned a Masters of Business Administration from McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas in Austin in 2001.

His career included 10 years as a management consultant at Accenture and, most recently, two years as vice president of business solutions at The TJX Companies in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Beverly developed many deep lifelong friendships over the span of his life, beginning with his Weston classmates, with whom he later shared family ski vacations in Vermont and boating on Long Island Sound.

He was also devoted to his Tulane Sigma Chi friends, who played an important role in his final months.

Beverly was also completely and utterly devoted to his children, Maren Morgan Beverly, 13, and Walker Crain Beverly, 11.

He was deeply proud of his children and took care to teach them life’s essentials, from the best way to start a campfire, to catching a crab to sailing a Sunfish on a windy day.

Since he was a child, Beverly spent summers at his beloved family home overlooking Peconic Bay in Cut­chogue, where his namesake great-great-grandfather, Russell Simeon Walker, laid claim around 1900.

He forged deep, lifelong friendships at this special place, and his presence will be forever felt.

In addition to his wife and children, Beverly is survived by his mother, Carolyn McCall, and his father, James (Deborah) Beverly, his grandmother, Yvonne Beverly, and many aunts, uncles and extended family.

Services were held on Saturday, May 30 at First Presbyterian Church in Southold.

Donations in his honor can be made to: The MGH Development Office, Attn: Sarah Church, Brain Cancer Research Fund for Dr. Jorg Dietrich, 165 Cambridge St., Suite 600, Boston, MA 02114.

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