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MOUNTAIN -- BEATRICE Funeral Services will be held Saturday, March 15, 2008 for Bea Mountain, an almost 60 year resident of Belen. Mrs. Mountain, as many people called her, passed away March 11, 2008 at a Belen nursing home after an extended illness. Born January 21, 1912, in Kinsley, Kansas, Bea Lengel worked as a seamstress before her marriage to Samuel Fiske Mountain in 1936. Fiske and Bea met when Bea accompanied Fiske who was an accomplished violist. Bea was also an accomplished musician who played the pipe organ at Saint Paul's Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas, starting at the age of 16. Following their marriage, Bea and Fiske lived in Kansas until moving to the Raton and Springer area in the early 1940s. Bea and Fiske arrived in Belen in 1949 where he was the orchestra and bandleader for the Belen schools. Fiske passed away in 1969. Bea taught private piano lesson in her home for years, teaching hundreds of students who fondly remember her. In addition, Bea played at most of the churches in Belen as well as for the Belen Eastern Star, Masonic Lodge and Rainbow Girls. She was the Grand Organist for the State of New Mexico and also served as Worthy Matron for the Magdalena Eastern Star. She is survived by her children, Patricia Bullard and husband, Phil; Susan Myers and husband, Bruce; John Mountain and wife, Joy; Jeanne Abbott and husband, Jim; Samuel Mountain and wife, Sherri; and Nancy Huning and husband, Louis; 19 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; one sister, Carolyn Pitts of Wichita; and one brother, Herbert Lengel of Glen Carbon, Illinois. A viewing will be held at the First Baptist Church of Los Chavez, on Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. followed by a Funeral Service at 10:00 a.m. with Pastor Boyd Morerod officiating. Interment will follow at the Terrace Grove Cemetery in Belen Pallbearers will be Mike Buxton, Brian Lengel, Jason Mountain, Louie Huning, Jr., Adam Gonzalez and Clayton Stallings. Honorary pallbearers will be all of her grandchildren. Sign Beatrice's online register book at www.romerofuneralhomenm.com. Romero Funeral Home, 609 N. Main St., Belen, NM.
        Published on: Fri March 14, 2008