John R. Beaver
John Rudolph Beaver, 79, the retired president of a medical manufacturing and supply firm based in Waltham, died March 6 of coronary artery disease at his home in Meredith, N.H.Mr. Beaver graduated from Tufts University in 1951 with a degree in mechanical engineering. While in college, he was a member of the Alpha Sigma Chi fraternity and played football and lacrosse.
After graduation, Mr. Beaver served in the US Army Medical Corps. After his discharge in 1954, he began working at the company founded by his father, Rudolph Beaver Inc., then in Belmont. At the time, the shop employed six and produced surgical blades and handles; by the time Mr. Beaver retired, the company employed more that 250 in an 80,000 square-foot Waltham facility.
"He started at the family business early on, and it really grew slowly over the years, into the 1960s," said Mr. Beaver's son, Bradford Will of Bearsville, N.Y. "Then he and my mother took it global, and they set up partnerships all over the world."
In 1959, Mr. Beaver married Patricia (Will) and the two raised their three children in Lexington. He retired in 1987 and spent much of his retirement at the family home on Lake Winnipesaukee.
In addition to his wife and son, Mr. Beaver leaves another son, Jason of Providence; a daughter, Kathryn of White River Junction, Vt.; and one grandson.
Services are private.
Louis Selverstone
Dr. Louis A. Selverstone, a doctor who practiced internal medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital for 35 years, died March 17 of congestive heart failure at the Park Avenue Nursing Center in Arlington. He was 87 and spent most of his life in Boston.Dr. Selverstone was born in Augusta, Ga. He studied medicine at Columbia College and Harvard Medical School and trained at Boston City Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago. From 1945 to 1947, Dr. Selverstone served as a captain in the US Army Medical Corps. He was beloved by his patients for his dedicated, compassionate care, and sense of humor, colleagues and relatives said.
Dr. Selverstone shared a practice with his brother, Dr. Norman Selverstone of Cambridge, and was a member of the staff at Mount Auburn from 1960 until his retirement in 1995.
His wife, Anne Driscoll Selverstone, an instructor at Tufts Medical School, died in 1983.
Services are private.
Other deaths
AZCONA, Rafael - In Spain, Sunday, at 81. A novelist and script writer, Mr. Azcona was known for films such as the Oscar-winning comedy "Belle Epoque" and Luis Garcia Berlanga's "The Executioner." He won six Spanish Goya film awards, including one for lifetime achievement in 1998.
Correction: Because of a reporting error, the obituary yesterday of Dr. Louis Selverstone, who practiced at Mount Auburn Hospital for 35 years, gave a wrong location for Park Avenue Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. It is in Arlington, Mass.
