My life is like a movie in which I get to play myself and I get to experience it one frame at a time. It is a foregone conclusion that the film has a happy ending - it's in the script. I love this film. I love my part and if I play my cards right there's a good chance I'll get an Academy Award ! - Sally Huss 1992
Beatrice “Bea” Morrow
Our beloved and beautiful wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother Bea left us on Wednesday, April 18 after a long struggle with lung cancer. She was a young 72 years old.
Born in 1934 in Detroit, Michigan, Bea came to California with three children in 1957, settling in the San Fernando Valley where another child was born. After raising four children she decided to return to college in 1969 by first attending Pierce Community College and then Cal State Northridge where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree and her teaching credential. In 1972 she met her husband Jack one enchanted evening at a dance, and he was very soon in love with her, an emotion she seems to inspire with everyone she meets. They lived for 31 years in Long Beach, Jack’s hometown.
Bea continued her college education at Cal State Long Beach recieving her Master Degree. After ten years of teaching high school theater and other courses in Orange County, she joined Jack in their newly formed business which eventually grew to become Media Golden West, a publishing and printing corporation headquartered in Long Beach. During this time she and Jack traveled to every continent, including Antarctica and the Arctic, Africa, Australia, South America, Asia, Europe and many other locales, on business and for pleasure.
Upon their retirement and sale of the businesses, they moved to Cambria, which they soon christened Camelot. Bea immediately immersed herself in the Pewter Plow Playhouse in Cambria, directing many plays and readings. She and Jack resumed their Sierra Club environmental activities, begun in Long Beach where both were officers, by joining the Santa Lucia Chapter in San Luis Obispo. They also became State Park docents at the Museum of Natural History in Morro Bay. A trained classical pianist, Bea also played nightclub and jazz piano, joining Jack for a period of time in a Morro Bay jazz band.
Combining the children of prior marriages, Bea and Jack had a family of 7 children, 12 grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren, who all survive her and share loving memories of her. With her beaming smile and happy laughter, Bea amassed a wealth of friends in both Long Beach and Cambria, and everywhere she went. A memorial service in Cambria will be held in the future.
In lieu of flowers Bea would prefer donations made to the programs she was so passionately involved in. If you wish to help the activities she loved, please contribute to any of the following: Pewter Plough Playhouse, PO Box 1776, Cambria; Santa Lucia Chapter, Sierra Club, PO Box 17555, San Luis Obispo; Museum of Natural History, Cent. Coast Nat. Hist. Assn., 20 State Park Road, Morro Bay.
