Beryl Edwards, 87, of Wirral, England, UK, passed away on 23 November 2025. She was a retired missionary who served in Argentina, Paraguay, and Spain for 39 years.

Beryl Thorne was born on 26 October 1938 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, to her parents, Leslie and Hilda Thorne. She became a Christian at age nine, and at 14, she felt God’s call to the mission field. She would go on to graduate from secretarial training in 1955, and the call to the mission field eventually grew stronger.

While helping with the youth of Emmanuel Church Pensby, she met and fell in love with Victor Edwards. Beryl attended Faith Mission Bible College and graduated in 1962, working as an evangelist in Northern Ireland Scotland. In 1963, she followed her fiancé at the time, Victor Edwards, to Argentina to serve as missionaries together under a non-Nazarene organization. Beryl and Victor were married on 26 September 1964.

In 1968, the Edwardses joined the Church of the Nazarene, and a year later, they were appointed by the General Board as missionaries to Argentina. While Victor taught at the theological college, Beryl helped spearhead a women’s ministry, and coordinated holiday bible clubs (Vacation Bible School) at the church.

As the church grew in Northern Argentina, specifically Pilar, the Church of the Nazarene in Argentina began to pioneer a new district: the North Argentina/Paraguay District, to which Victor was named superintendent. While living in Formosa, Beryl brought food to those in the hospital, helped support single mothers, and shared meals and prayers with many.

The Edwardses continued to support the church’s growth in both Argentina and Paraguay, specifically in Paraguay’s capital city, Asuncion. They helped organize multiple churches in Paraguay before being reassigned to the work in Spain in 1985. While the girls attended an English-speaking school, Beryl’s mission field became the parents’ association and the mothers’ group. Those groups helped victims displaced by floods.

Upon reassignment, Victor and Beryl moved to Spain to work in Barcelona. They helped the Church of the Nazarene grow and develop in the northeast of Spain until their retirement in 1992.

According to her family, even in her final days, she continued to share God with others.

Beryl is survived by her husband, Victor; daughters Keren Olson, Merion Shippam, Deborah Edwards, and Rachel Storkey; six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.