Beverley Plyer

Beverley T. Plyer passed away peacefully at home Wednesday, May 28, 2025.  She is survived by her son Paige Plyer, Dee Plyer, her grandchildren Taylor Ashley, Vance Cruz, Paige Plyer Jr and her great granddaughter Autumn Cronk.  Predeceased by her husband Robert W. Plyer, her children Jason Plyer, Andrew Plyer and Hilary Ashley.

Bev was born 12/3/1928 in Brooklyn NY, the second child of the late William F. Turner Jr. and Sarah Beverley Turner and the sister of the late William F. Turner III.  While in High School the family moved to New Jersey and Bev graduated from Red Bank High School and went on to attend Monmouth College and NYU. She moved to Greenwich Village NY and started her career in advertising and met her future husband Bob Plyer, they were married in 1956. They moved to Pound Ridge NY where they had 2 children then moved to Westport CT where 2 more children were born.

Bev was a stay-at-home mom during this time, she was involved with the PTA and church activities while raising the kids, she also had an open-door policy where she would take in her children’s friends if they were having problems at home and was mother to many other children. In 1980 she went back to work in advertising eventually ending up at the American Association of Advertising Agencies as the Director of Media Services. While at the AAAA’s she saw an opportunity to leverage her relationship with other businesses and started The Partnership for a Drug Free America (now Partnership to End Addiction) in 1985. She retired from the AAAA’s in 1997 to help raise her grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held on June 14 at 10:30 am at First Congregational Church, 110 Broad Street, Guilford. Burial will be held privately.  In leu of flowers please consider donating to the Partnership to End Addiction drugfree.org