Beatrice Brown Wood St. George, UT - Beatrice Brown Wood, our darling Bee, passed quietly at home on May 23. Born on Christmas Day, 1914 in Ogden, Utah to Adelbert Canfield Brown and Ortensia Pearl Hendricks, Bee married F. Galvin (Woody) Wood on December 27, 1945 in Ogden. Their marriage was sealed in the Los Angeles LDS Temple on May 14, 1958. Bee and Woody had one son, Frank Galvin Wood. Bee was an elegant lady who loved fine art and Royal Copenhagen china, but still enjoyed camping and fishing. She was a competitive duplicate bridge player and avid puzzler. An active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Bee served in a number of church positions, including Relief Society president. Bee was a lifelong genealogist. She helped pilot an extraction program for the LDS church in 1977, and worked as a control clerk and later supervisor of data entry. She was called as director of the Bloomington Utah Stake extraction program in 1997. Since being made emerita in 2006, Bee indexed 177,701 names, with 11,450 names just this year. She indexed until the day before she passed away. Bee is survived by her granddaughters, Melinda and Nicole Wood (Moorpark, California), nephew Doug Brown (St. George), sister-in-law Pat Brown (Ogden), daughter-in-law Laura Thomas (Moorpark), and best friend Jean Cruickshank. She was preceded in death by her husband Woody in 1994, and son Frank in 1993. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at the Bloomington LDS 4th Ward Chapel, 3381 South Mulberry Drive, St. George, Utah. A visitation will be held Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. at the Chapel, prior to services. Interment will be at the Tonaquint Cemetery, St. George, Utah. Arrangements entrusted to the care of Metcalf Mortuary, (435) 673-4221.