BEA ROBINSON Beatrice Laura Robinson, surrounded by her family, died peacefully at Norwalk Hospital December 28, 2009. Born October 5, 1924, in Windber, Pennsylvania to Irene and Joseph Barna. The family later moved to Cleveland, Ohio where Beatrice worked for the Army Map Service providing guidance for U.S. servicemen during World War Two. She enrolled at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio as a pre-med student, but later switched her Major to Fine Arts. There she had a blind-date for the Notre Dame/Miami football game with a returning 8th Air Force, B-24 bomber pilot, Lieutenant Clark Robinson. Their friendship blossomed and she accepted Clark’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity pin as a sign of their intention to marry. The following summer she worked as a resort hotel waitress in Leland, Michigan where a well-known photographer, impressed with her good looks, recommended her to Harry Conover, head of New York’s top model agency. He suggested she join his host of beauties, but she opted not to move to Manhattan, and instead found steady work modeling for dozens of national advertising campaigns created by Cleveland's ad agencies for clients like; Standard Oil, Westinghouse, Messengill, and Owens Corning. Bea and Clark were married while still in college and had 4 children in Ohio; sons, Drew (deceased) and Kevin and two daughters Laura and Diane after moving to Shakerwood. While in Ohio they were members of the Mentor Yacht Club and the Hermit Club. In 1960 the family moved from Pepper Pike, Ohio to New Canaan, Connecticut where another son, Kerry was born a few years later. Becoming charter members of the Lake Club, the New Canaan Dance Club, Bea was also active in Newcomers, the Women’s Club and the Bridge Club. She had become an accomplished figure skater, played tennis with Elton John at John Gardner’s Tennis Camp in Scottsdale, AZ where Elton John suggested they might become “ball boys” at Wimbledon. Bea was also an avid golfer at Country Club of Darien where she played regularly for 47 years. Bea loved life, a good party and new friends, and during her 62-years of blissful marriage, she traveled extensively both nationally and world-wide. She became an early advocate of the green movement and a proponent of organic foods, 40 years before the trend was popular. She was an avid gardener who experimented with heirloom produce, disdaining genetic engineering. Blessed with six grandchildren: Corky (deceased), Nicky and Isabel Bornstein, who live in Argentina, Robert Storck a graduate of the Saint Thomas Choir School in New York City, and Anna and Drew Robinson of Norwalk. She is survived by her beloved husband, Clark, daughters Laura (formerly Bornstein) Robinson, Diane Storck, and sons Kevin and Kerry.