Beverly Potts Moser

Beverly Potts Moser 1924-2011

Beverly Potts Moser passed away May 8, 2011 at the age of 87 at North Canyon Care Center in Bountiful, Utah. She was born January 29, 1924 to John and Emma Beck in Salt Lake City, Utah. At age 4, Beverly and her siblings learned swimming and diving at Beck''s Hot Springs (founded by her grandfather, well known successful Utah mining man). At age 13 Beverly started her successful swimming and diving career, and trained and competed with her sister Joyce Beck (currently Joyce Barnes). She won many Intermountain A.A.U. titles in her first years of competition in 1937 and 1938. In 1939 she placed first in several swimming events and won her first national event on the one-meter board diving event in Los Angeles. She left Salt Lake City and East High School to move to Santa Barbara, to train under Coach Fred Cady along with Marjorie Gestring, who was an U.S. Olympic Team champion three-meter diver of the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. Beverly attended high school in Santa Barbara while training for diving. In 1940 she traveled to Portland, Oregon where she won a national competition on the three-meter diving board and awarded on October 30, 1940 membership on the U.S. Olympic team by the American Olympic Committee. She was 16 years old at this time and attending East High School in Salt Lake City again from which she graduated. Unfortunately, the games were cancelled that year when war broke out in Helsinki, Finland, the location of the 1940 Olympics. John Mooney, a long-time sports writer for the Tribune Newspaper often wrote of Beverly and her sports career, pointing out that she was one of only two women in Utah who were on U.S. Olympic teams. In 1943, she married Paul M. Potts, a corporate lawyer for Standard Oil Co. of California (now Chevron Oil), in Salt Lake City. They moved to Palo Alto, California and had two sons. In 1956 Paul was transferred to New Jersey, where he died of a heart attack. Beverly moved back to Salt Lake with her two sons. She worked for Standard Oil in Salt Lake City, met and married John Moser, who also worked for Standard Oil; they were together until the time of her death. She enjoyed time with her grandchildren, swimming and traveling with them. She is survived by her husband, John Moser, son Dennis Potts (Polly), sister Joyce Barnes (Warren), brother Robert Beck (Sally) and grandchildren, Samantha and Jamie Potts. Preceded in death by her first husband Paul M. Potts, her son Michael and her brother James. Family wishes to thank North Canyon Care Center nurses and staff for their loving and excellent care. Cremation under the direction of Lindquist''s Bountiful Mortuary.