Beryl Bouck

Beryl Bouck left us on 28 May 2025, after a long, long struggle with Alzheimer’s. She was 95 and died at home with family by her side.

Born on the island of Jersey in the British Channel Islands just off the coast of France, Beryl was a bit of a rebel right from the beginning. Perhaps it was being occupied by the Germans during WWII that started it, but she went on to enjoy an amazing life. At 17, she “fixed” her id and ran away to the British Army ending up unbeknownst to her family, in Egypt. Once the Army found out she was underage, she was sent back to Jersey until, at 18, desperate to get off the small island, she applied to British Airways (then BEA) to be a stewardess. While with the airline she traveled mostly in Northern Europe and on a trip to Paris, met her lifelong love, Fraser, a young American SAC pilot from upstate NY. Talk about romantic… they met under the Arc de Triomphe and went for coffee, which she paid for. Since then she always said she had to marry Fraser to get her money back! But it was a lasting love and the two of them were devoted to each other.

Beryl traveled with Fraser wherever his work took him, raising their family along the way. Point Magu, Villars-sur-Olon, London, Chicago, Beirut, New York, Delaware… She once said, “well I finished making all the curtains for this house. Must be time to move.” She completed her degree in Fine Arts at UD once the kids were grown. They both loved traveling, usually driving, fast, particularly through the south of France and on the German autobahns in his British Racing Green MG and later a Porshe. They also took many family vacations skiing and she was always the social one, throwing the many dinner and cocktail parties Fraser enjoyed, always game to do whatever he had in mind, and then some…

She will be missed by her family: her son Steve and wife Renee and their two children Jeff and Alex, her son Andy and his wife Jouveth and children Fraser, Anita and Thomas, as well as her daughter Gail and granddaughter Iona Simone. We are all thankful for the friendship, care, patience (and humor!) that Jill Accierno provided to both Fraser and Beryl in their final years. A big hug to Melissa and Jen at Delaware Hospice.