Celebrating the Life of Beverly Janson Ho
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Remembering Beverly
Beverly Janson Ho of Arlington, Virginia, passed away peacefully on November 6, 2026, after courageously battling an illness.
Born in Suva, Fiji, to Victor and Shirley Janson Ho, Beverly attended the University of New South Wales, earning a BCom with First Class Honours. She began her career as lecturer and then the faculty advisor at Central Queensland University’s Fiji campus. She also served as VP of CPA Australia’s Fiji Branch. She then earned a M.S. in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was selected for Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma.
Beverly settled in Washington D.C. and joined Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she spent more than 20 years in the Audit & Assurance practice. She led audits of global financial institutions, investment managers, and nonprofits, and rose to Managing Director. A secondment to Deloitte’s IFRS Global Office in London sharpened both her technical expertise and her global outlook. She was a licensed CPA.
What people will remember most is how Beverly made them feel. Clients, colleagues, staff, and friends from church all felt truly seen and heard by her. She co-led Deloitte’s Greater Washington Board Ready Program, served as its Audit Diversity Equity and Inclusion Leader, and mentored countless professionals, including as an executive mentor with Ascend. She had a rare gift for delivering hard messages with such empathy that people left feeling cared for, not criticized. That same gift made her a confidant, peacemaker, and steadying force in her family, her workplace, and her community.
Deeply curious and a voracious reader, Beverly was always eager to understand new places and people, filling her passport with stamps from more than 40 countries. She was a true foodie. Beverly was the person to call for a restaurant recommendation and many friends credit her with expanding their palates. Though she had no children of her own, Beverly delighted in being a magnanimous Auntie to the children of those dear to her.
Her faith in Christ sustained her, and it shaped the compassion and grace she showed everyone around her. Beverly is survived by her mother, Shirley, and her brother, Vincent, of Suva, Fiji. She was surrounded by her aunt Ani Hammond; her cousins Nate Wong and Chris Hammond; her best friend from Fiji Tupou Chew; and a wide circle of friends, colleagues, and mentees when she passed. She was predeceased by her father, Victor Janson Ho.
A service will be held on Friday, November 13, 2026, at 11a.m. at One Voice Fellowship in Falls Church. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to her GoFundMe page.
Celebrating Beverly's life
Gathering and Fijian meal
Readings
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
[Reading chosen by Shenique and Jenny: add the passage here.]
Songs
Lyrics will also appear on the screen in the sanctuary. Viewers joining from Fiji can follow along here.
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
[Lyrics to be added]
It Is Well
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Isa Lei
Fijian farewell song, with the English translation alongside.
[Fijian verse 1]
[English verse 1]
[Fijian chorus]
[English chorus]
[Fijian verse 2]
[English verse 2]
[Fijian verse 3]
[English verse 3]
The chorus is sung again after each verse.
Aloha Oe
Beverly sang this song to her Auntie Rosemary Janson-Wong when she was in hospice. Today it is a fitting response from heaven.
[Lyrics to be added]
Shenique will also sing “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” as a live tribute.
Photos
The slideshow plays during “It Is Well.” More photos will be added here.
Give in Beverly's memory
In place of flowers, the family invites you to give through GoFundMe.
Visit the GoFundMe page