Beatrice Georgia Waterbrook

1937 - 2023  (85 years)

• Name	Beatrice Georgia Waterbrook
  	Beatrice Waterbrook Ross 1937 - Bea Ross, a pianist, organist, accompanist, and singer, has taught piano for over fifty years. She has also been active as a vocal soloist and singer in ensembles and choirs. Bea was born in Modesto, California, one of three children and the only daughter born to Louis and Emma Cavil Waterbrook. Music was an important part of family life, her mother being a pianist and her father a singer. Bea began singing in church at age two and started piano lessons while very young. Most of her childhood was spent in West De Pere, Wisconsin, where she attended and graduated from the local high school in 1955, after having attended Wisconsin Academy for a while. In those formative years, she was particularly inspired by music teacher Barbara Kellogg Worden. Bea then enrolled at Emmanuel Missionary College, now Andrews University, where during her freshman year she decided to pursue a voice major. While at EMC, she was a member of the Collegians, a select choir directed by Melvin Davis, another influential music teacher in her training as a singer. She married Richard Ross in 1957 in Denver, Colorado, and in the following year, established a piano studio, which continues to the present in the Walla Walla, Washington, area, where she has lived since 1970. In subsequent years she has also worked as a secretary and office manager and sung in church and community choirs as well as in smaller vocal ensembles. Beginning in 1977 and continuing until 1992, Ross was choir accompanist for the Milton-Stateline Seventh-day Adventist School in nearby Milton-Freewater, Oregon. One of her brothers, Carl E. Waterbrook, a singer and choir director, pursued a career in music after graduating from Walla Walla College with a music degree in 1968. He taught music at Georgia-Cumberland Academy and Savannah High School in Georgia, and completed an M.Mus. at AU in 1973. The Rosses would have three children, Karin Sue, Kathryn Ross (Schaffer), and Robert Alan. Kathryn, who completed a B.Mus. in clarinet performance at Walla Walla College in 1986, is pursuing a career in music teaching and is active as a clarinetist.
  Birth	25 Aug 1937	Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States
  Gender	Female
  Death	13 Aug 2023	Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States
  Burial	2 Sep 2023	Mount Hope Cemetery, College Place, Walla Walla, Washington, USA
  	Agency: Mount Hope Cemetery
  	Address: 715 SE 12Th St College Place, WA 99324 USA
  Person ID	I3292	Walters Genealogy
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	Louis Lawrence Waterbrook,   b. 10 Jul 1905, Oconto, Oconto, Wisconsin, United States d. 16 Feb 1975, Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Emma Agnes Cavil,   b. 17 Feb 1908, West De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, United States d. 7 Dec 1972, Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	7 May 1927	, Brown, Wisconsin, United States
  Divorce	24 Mar 1959	Garland, Miller, Arkansas, United States
  		Louis Lawrence Waterbrook and Emma Agnes [Cavil] Waterbrook - Divorce Petition Coupon
  Family ID	F1311	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Richard Arles Ross,   b. 30 Nov 1937, Fairmont, Martin, Minnesota, United States d. 7 Aug 1995, College Place, Walla Walla, Washington, United States (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	27 Oct 1957
  Family ID	F1312	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2017

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 25 Aug 1937 - Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States Death - 13 Aug 2023 - Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States Burial - Agency: Mount Hope Cemetery,Address: 715 SE 12Th St College Place, WA 99324 USA - 2 Sep 2023 - Mount Hope Cemetery, College Place, Walla Walla, Washington, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headshots

  Beatrice Georgia [Waterbrook] Ross