Beryl Elaine Pool

July 7, 1937 – November 1, 2022

Beryl Elaine Pool passed peacefully into the arms of the Lord on Nov. 1, 2022, at the age of 85. She was born on July 7, 1937, to her parents Lawrence William and Garnet Bernice Libengood in Burley, Idaho. They moved to Union Gap, Washington in 1946. She graduated from Yakima High School in 1956. She met Ernie “Chuck” Pool in high school and they married in the Union Gap Church of the Nazarene on Oct. 12, 1957.

She was a proud Navy wife and loving mother for 20 years. She and Ernie raised their family all over the United States, but wherever they moved she always maintained a happy and healthy home for her family and often on her own while her husband was deployed overseas. Upon retirement from the Navy in 1974, they moved to Yakima for a short time. They then moved to Cheney, Washington in 1976, where she worked at the Ben Franklin Department Store. In 1991 after their children graduated high school they moved to Moses Lake where she worked at Kmart until the store closed its doors.

She is preceded in death by her husband Ernie “Chuck” Pool, her parents Lawrence William and Garnet Bernice Libengood and her sister Nancy Gause. She is survived by her sister Patricia “Pat” Dyer of Tonasket, Washington; her brother-in-law Joe Gause; her kids Dave (Sue) Pool of Oakdale. Connecticut, Rich Pool (girlfriend Margaret Hart) of Moses Lake, Washington, Dan Pool of Moses Lake, Washington, Julie Stecher of Moses Lake, Washington and Donnie (Jeanette) Pool of Spokane, Washington; numerous nieces and nephews; 12 grandkids and 15 great-grandkids.

The family requests, in lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the Alzheimer’s Association and American Cancer Association.

Services will be held on Nov. 14, 2022, at 10 a.m. at Moses Lake Church of the Nazarene, 422 S. Balsam St., Moses Lake, Washington.

Please leave your thoughts and memories for the family at www.kayserschapel.com. Arrangements are under the care of Kayser’s Chapel of Memories.