FROSTPROOF, Fla. – Beverly A. Buck, beloved “Auntie Bev” to her family, passed away peacefully in Florida on Feb. 16, 2021 after a long illness. Bev was born in Bangor on Feb. 9, 1944, the youngest daughter of the late Norman and Marion Buck. Growing up in Augusta, she graduated from Cony High School in 1962, later getting Radiologic Technologist (R.T.) degrees from the School of Radiologic Technology in Portland and School of Radiotherapeutic Technology in Philadelphia. She began her career as a Radiologic Therapy Technologist at Maine Medical Center in Portland, later moving to the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, where she served as a senior technologist, instructor, and educational and technical director. After receiving a B.S. in Health Care Administration from Saint Joseph’s College in Windham (Summa Cum Laude), she spent the last six years of her remarkable career with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, overseeing quality improvement in radiation oncology. Academic appointments included stints with Quinnipiac College, Northeastern University, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health, and Harvard Medical School, and she authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and textbooks. She was affiliated with many professional organizations, once serving as president of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists. Her interest in her patients, students and colleagues was renowned, and she spent decades helping people from all over New England who went to Boston for cancer treatment.During her early career Bev originally lived on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, within walking distance of Fenway Park, and family visits often involved a Red Sox game or trip to the New England Aquarium. She later lived in Stoughton, Mass. A Maine girl at heart, she loved getting out of the city and camping with family. Favorite places included the Eustis area, where her father had served as a game warden back in the 1940s, Jo-Mary Lake, and Long Pond in Belgrade. Other interests included downhill skiing and horseback riding, especially dressage. An intrepid world traveler, Bev took trips to places as diverse as Austria and Hong Kong, once coming home with photos from a safari in South Africa. Another adventure involved being rescued by helicopter from a glacier in New Zealand where she had been skiing, getting an up close look at that country’s health care system. As one relative recalled, “When Auntie showed up, the party started.”After retirement, Bev divided her time between a home in Frostproof, Fla. and a camp in the Crystal Springs community on Great Pond in Rome, where she and her Maine coon cat, Scuffy Wiggles, enjoyed many sparkling sunsets. She put her extensive vocabulary to use on local golf courses in Maine and Florida, and enjoyed get-togethers with friends and family.Never one for gourmet cooking, she said that the best things she made were reservations, with skills like roasting and skewering reserved for politicians she disagreed with, a long list. Other interests included reading novels and watching classic movies, British comedy, Neil Diamond concerts, and card playing.Bev is survived by her sister, Norma Mann and brother-in-law, Earl of Frostproof, Fla., brother-in-law, Robert Bernier of Manchester; and four nephews and nieces, including Matthew Bernier of Pittsfield and wife Tina, Terri Fox of Frostproof, Fla. and husband Francis, Cynthia Briggs of Jefferson, and Kelsey Ullman of Hopkinton, Mass. and husband Andrew. She is fondly remembered by great-nephews and nieces including Sarah Kessler and husband Bryan, Lily and Kelsey Briggs, Abby Bernier, and Justin, Ben and Maddie Ullman. She was predeceased by an older sister, Joyce Bernier, of Manchester in 2017. Throughout her career she made many lifelong friends, including in the Crystal Springs community, where she was active in the campowner’s association.At Bev’s request there will be no memorial service. Those who knew and loved Bev are encouraged to get outdoors, hug family and friends, and take care of each other, reflecting on a life well-lived. Donations in her memory may be given to theAmerican Lung Association (donate.lung.org).