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Beverly Barrett Childs, born in Fairmont, May 9, 1927, passed away Friday (Nov.14, 2008) at Granite Farms Estates retirement center, Media, Pa., after a very long illness. Funeral and burial services will be held next spring in Fairmont. Contributions in her memory may be made to The Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, 111350 McCormick Rd., Suite 906, Hunt Valley, Md. 21031.She was the daughter of the late Edgar O. and Jessie Church Barrett. She graduated from Fairmont Senior High School, and attended Antioch College.She married Gordon Eads Childs, an engineer with Westinghouse Corp. in Fairmont, in 1951 and moved from Fairmont to Pompton Plains, N.J., in 1954. From their marriage were born, Valerie Lewis Childs, a nurse in Chadds Ford, Pa., and Dr. Barrett Hopkins Childs (wife Leslie), of Riverdale, NY. There are three grandchildren, Diana Childs of Ithaca, N.Y., Danny Childs of Ann Arbor, Mich. and Megan Childs of Riverdale, N.Y.Their retirement years were spent in Lancaster, Pa., and following the death of Mr. Childs, in Media, Pa.Also surviving are her brother, Edgar O. Barrett (wife Betty), of Huntington; four nephews and a niece; and eleven great nephews and nieces.