Beverly Reedy...
The youngest of five children born to Thomas Reedy and Mary Mills-Reedy, was raised in rural western Pennsylvania.

Beverly attended Hooker High, in Hooker Pennsylvania but graduated from a Bible School in Cincinnati, Ohio where she met her first husband and was married soon after graduating from high school. Together they had four children, John Mark, Kimberlie, James Michael, and Tammy. During the early years of marriage, Beverly learned the fine art of southern cooking as her family moved several times around the southern states including Louisiana and Alabama. The challenges of raising four children in tough times made for plenty of opportunity to apply creativity into the art of cooking at home. What she learned from the various upscale restaurants where she was employed was certainly of benefit.

Eventually a second marriage took place and two additional children were born, Rob and Melissa. Now, raising six children, Beverly continued to work outside the home, always letting her curiosity for fine food lead the way. While living in the Catskills, Beverly and close friend, Marie Ruhe started The Cheese Barrel, then off to Connecticut to briefly create and operate a little gourmet food shop called Cheese Etc. Then untimely job relocation by her husband to Glens Falls, New York, forced Beverly and her family to take up residency near Loughberry Lake in Saratoga Springs, New York. (That was her 29th move since she left for Ohio at age 18). She firmly planted her feet and began her legendary business of selling baked goods to local restaurants such as The Old Bryan Inn, Sweet Temptations, Chez Pierre, The Wishing Well and Siros, to name just a few.

After a few short years of working out of her home to raise money for purchasing restaurant equipment, Beverly finally opened "Beverly's Specialty Foods". Today, still located at the original location, 47 Phila Street in Saratoga Springs, New York, where you may catch her occasionally helping her son, Michael, who continues this Saratoga Springs icon, "Beverly's Specialty Foods" which is now known as "Beverly's".