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In Memory of Rachel Beeman. July 24, 1936 - May 20, 1980 Loving Wife and Mother.

Rachel 1957 When I fell in love....Who would not? three years later we were married.

Picture in your mind, a balmy Sunday evening where The Wagonmasters have been playing and singing with a variety of songs from Marty Robins El Paso, Tumbling Tumbleweeds a rip rousing hoe-down with the crowd of some 16 hundred clapping and stamping their feet…the stage lights go dark and only a glow from the dying embers of the campfire; a single soft pink spotlight shows Rachel sitting on the stone ring that circles the campfire with a small child sitting on her knee and a dozen or more children kneeling around her. To the sound of a classic guitar in the background, you could hear a pen drop as Rachel sings Scarlet Ribbons to the adoring children. The true meaning of Pathos, yes those were Special days at Knotts Berry Farm that will ever live in the hearts of all who were Wagonmasters.

1. The Virgin's Slumber Song - Peter Warlock 2. All Ye Good People - Richard Kountz

3. Wolcum Yole, That Yonge Child, Balulalo ' Benjamin Britten 4. Hang Up A Star For The Lord - George Lynn

5. Dear Christians, Praise God Evermore - Johann Kindermann 6. Holy,Holy, Holy Is The Lord of Host Healy Willan

'Hang Up A Star' Rachel Conducting Children's Choir CD $12.00 S & H included

1. Hallelujah from "Messiah" --G. F. Handel 2. O Lord Most Holy (Panis Angelicus) -- Cesar Frank

3. O Blessed Jesu (O Bone Jesu) --G. P. Palestrina 4. Thanks be to Thee--- G. F. Handel

7. The Omnipotence -- Franz Schubert 8. The Lord's Prayer--Albert Hey Malotte

Very coincidental that you should email me this evening. I was sorting through a bunch of stuff on Ruth's desk to see if I could find a more orderly arrangement for filing or storing. One of the papers that I unfolded turned out to be the Order of Worship for Rachel's memorial service. It has been there for close to 25 years. Ruth and I were informed of her passing away when we arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland to visit my cousin. I'll tell you about that encounter the next time we meet. It's sort of a tragi-comical thing. Judy had called Joe and Marlene to pass the extremely sad news on to us. I've always taken great pride in the work of the Chancel Choir. Even after all these years I still feel that if you scored the two choirs when they sang together, Rachel's kids shone the brightest EVERY time. I loved it and am still of the opinion that I held then. Ruth absolutely relished being her 'helper' (ie: finder of lost or mislaid keys, locating missing music, comforting kids Rachel banished for not paying attention (Just come back Sunday morning and she'll never know the difference. And, of course, she never did.) I think it became sort of like a merit badge to be kicked out of choir and then surviving so to speak.
< Finley Henderson 10 - 25 - 2004

Sad News: Ruth Henderson, dear friend and long time Choir Mother to Rachel's Youth Choir at the Anaheim Presbyterian Church has now joined Rachel and her Choir of Angels.

I will post on The Wagonmasters web site News Page.

----- Original Message -----

From: FCOOKH@aol.com

Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:25 PM

Subject: Sad News

Today (1/18/2006) Ruth passed away at 1:15 pm at St Jude Hospital in Fullerton. She had been fighting a pneumonic type virus for ten or twelve days. Don't know yet what the doctor has stated as the cause of death. The charge nurse had gone to get a quick lunch and returned to give Ruth her medication. Ruth was gone when the nurse entered the room .She went peacefully, painlessly and with dignity. Graveside services will be conducted for family and a few close friends at the National Cemetery at Riverside (March Air Force Base) The middle of next week. Details have to be worked out with the cemetery ahead of time. A memorial service at the church will be scheduled for sometime in February after consultation with the East Coast side of the family. Ruth's heart had been weakening, her renal system was beginning to fail and her potassium level had begun to rise to a dangerous level. The two previous evenings Dr Kwon and I had had extensive conversations about Ruth's condition. When he sensed that I was going to ask him for a prognosis he said: Don't ask me because I don't know the answer. Our thanks and gratitude to all of you for your kind thoughts, prayers and words of encouragement. Will keep you posted.

Finlay

"SONGS & DANCES OF 0UR COUNTRY"

Each series has 32 fifteen minute music lessons with a variety of challenges: to expand the students’ awareness of the resources at their disposal through the uses of many different instruments and to present the elements of music: structure, rhythm, harmony, and melody. The songs and dances presented in this series correlate with U. S. History, which is often a topic of Social Studies for fifth grade.

Rachel Beeman received her B.A. degree from California State University Long Beach; and did graduate work at the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California. Rachel Beeman, known to many as one of the nation’s favorite television music teachers, also has a children’s choir, which has produced three outstanding albums for Omega Records, Inc. Mrs. Beeman has been a featured vocalist on five very successful albums for Omega Records. Rachel Beeman brings to this series a professional approach to television teaching, backed with many years as a classroom teacher.

"SONGS & DANCES OF 0UR COUNTRY"

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