Grandma Bea

Thank you all for the prayers that have been sent to my family during this really awful time!  We can feel the prayers and I know Dad is feeling them most!  Grandma Bea started having a really hard time in October/November.  She fell at her house and broke her hip.  She had hip replacement surgery and was actually doing pretty well.  Lee and I went to Kingwood to see her after surgery and she was in alot of pain but she had her spunk.  This was the first time for Lee to meet Grandma Bea and it was the first time I had seen her in way too long.  I feel extremely guilty for not visiting and showing her just how much I loved her.  I know she went peacefully on Sunday but I wish I could tell her one more time how much I love her.  With that said, take the advice that everyone gives, tell your family and friends just how much you love them!

Beatrice Ivy "Bea" Smith

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July 24, 1922 - January 2, 2011

Beatrice "Bea" Ivy Smith, 88, passed away Sunday, January 2, 2011 in Kingwood, Texas. Bea is under the care of Hillier Funeral Home with graveside services scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday, January 5, at College Station Cemetery. The Rev. Matt Idom, pastor of First United Methodist Church Bryan will be officiating. Her family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, January 4, at Hillier Funeral Home.

Mrs. Smith was born to Winifred and Robert Wesley "Doc" Ivy on July 24, 1922 in College Station, Texas. She was raised there and graduated from A&M Consolidated High School. Bea attended TWU in Denton, where she received her teaching degree. On April 11, 1946 she married S. Burton Smith, a graduate of A&M who was attending Seminary at SMU in Dallas. She was by his side as he served as Minister to many congregations of the Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church and as they raised their family. Bea returned to teaching in the mid 1960's. She taught for many years at the school district in Port Arthur.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1996; her parents; and a son, Christopher Smith.

Survivors include her children and their spouses, Sid and Becky Smith of Tyler, Texas, Bob and Dorothy Beekman of Kingwood, Texas, and Mary Lou Smith of Beaumont, Texas; her grandchildren and their spouses, Gretchen and Jeremy Finley, Kristen and Lee Gwaltney, Meredith Smith, and Chris and Katie Beekman; and great-grandchildren, Mallory and Kendall Finley.

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