P.O. Box 506, 943 Highway 425 North, Monticello, AR 71655
Beverly June Lobitz, obituary portrait — Stephenson-Dearman Funeral Home

In Loving Memory

Beverly JuneLobitz

Date of Birth June 20, 1942
Passed Away On December 16, 2020
At Age 78 years
Resident of Monticello, AR
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Beverly June Lobitz, age 78 of Monticello, Arkansas, passed away December 16, 2020, at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She was born June 20, 1942, in Leonardville, Kansas to the late Wilbur and Grace Larsen Sprecker.
She was a graduate of Kansas State University Graduate School. Beverly was a Music Professor at the University of Arkansas at Monticello with 46 years of service. She retired in 2018. Her love for people was only exceeded by her love for God, and she shared God’s love daily with all the people she taught and came in contact with. She devoted her life to her students to whom she taught the art of music passionately. She loved them vigorously and encouraged them relentlessly. Beverly was a tireless servant of God and of the people he created. Her life was a testimony to God’s goodness and a testament to the enormous impact she had in the lives of thousands of students and communities of southeast Arkansas.
Along with her parents, Beverly is preceded in death by her husband Lawrence “Larry” Lobitz; and a brother, Gaylen Sprecker of Kansas City. She is survived by her son, Brice Lobitz and wife Becky of New Orleans, LA; grandsons, Colton Lobitz and wife Gabby of Ponchatoula, LA and Tyler Lobitz of Baton Rouge, LA; sisters, Phyllis Nelson of Topeka, KS and Sandi Bennett of Oklahoma City, OK; a brother, Boyd Sprecker of Oklahoma City, OK; as well as a host of nieces, nephews, friends, and students that loved her dearly.
Online guestbook at www.stephensondearman.com.


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Services

Visitation

Come and Go Viewing

Stephenson-Dearman Chapel

Monticello, AR, 71655

December 22, 2020

12:00 - 3:00 P.M.

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Service

Graveside

Oakland Cemetery

N. Hyatt

Monticello, AR, 71655

December 22, 2020

3:00 PM

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Condolences (47)

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Justin Ferguson Little Rock, AR December 29, 2020
"Mrs. Lobitz was a wonderful woman who poured herself into every student she ever taught. She helped foster and instill a lifelong love of all music. I will miss her but remember her fondly every time that I play the piano."
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Darrell Schultz Aledo, TX December 25, 2020
"It's Christmas Day, 2020, and Beverly and Larry are singing on the grandest stage of all, and sure to be enjoying the voices of the Heavenly Host singing praises to God! I was just a young boy around eleven when they worshiped at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Weatherford, Oklahoma. It was a small church with a typical attendance of 66 at a service, but it was oh-so-friendly and loving. The sanctuary wasn't much bigger than a large U-Haul storage unit, had brick walls, and it was ready for songs to echo off its walls. I clearly remember when Larry and Beverly came there...the very first Sunday...because when they started singing everyone's eyes bugged out and you could tell they wanted to turn around to answer their own question, "Where did the angels come from?" From then on, every time they sang with the rest of us, they'd go full blast on the last verse and people would just marvel. I remember Leona Bose just closing her eyes and holding the hymnal to her heart and listening. No one was 'jealous' that they couldn't even sing like that in their home showers...they were flat-out amazed at how Larry and Bev sang. They smiled and looked at each other and we all were just giddy to have a concert performance every Sunday! Sometimes they'd sing a duet by the piano and the pianist wanted to quit playing and just watch them sing, you could tell. It was like we were all fourth graders, chunking footballs a few yards downfield but Larry and Beverly came by and started deliberately throwing balls off the goalposts a hundred yards away, leaving the rest of us excited at the sight and literally having our jaws drop in amazement. I never heard such talent in church again, now many decades later. Enjoy the reunion with Lawrence and sing up!"
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Mary Lasiter Wilmar, AR December 23, 2020
"Deepest sympathy to the family on the great loss of Beverly. Prayers for the family."
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