Beveley Powers

Beveley Jo Sumrall Powers was born January 20th, 1933, the third and last child of Wilbur Robert Sumrall and Lucy Charles Prewitt Sumrall of Crystal Springs, Mississippi. As an infant she slept in a basket fashioned by her father because her sister and life-long best friend was just fourteen months older and still sleeping in the only crib the family owned. For reasons that will remain a mystery, she was affectionately nicknamed “Bunk” by the older brother she…