Beatriz Moreno D'Aquila

In her early childhood the family spent summers in Michigan and winters in Texas picking cotton, pickles, sugar beets and various fruit. During those years her father, Emeterio Moreno, saved enough money to purchase a small farm in 1930 near Shepherd, Michigan, enabling the family to settle in one place.

She attended a one-room country school house until she completed the eighth grade. High school and college followed, and in 1948 Beatriz graduated from Central Michigan College of Education (now Central Michigan University), making her the first member of her family to attend college. After graduation she taught Spanish at Baldwin High School in western Michigan.

In 1956 she moved to Seattle where she met her husband, Michael D’Aquila. The couple married in 1957 and their only daughter, Lisa María, was born in 1962. In the first years of their marriage Beatriz taught at Richmond Beach High School, now the site of Richmond Beach Library, and later became a Montessori school teacher, but by the late ‘60s she quit work to become a stay-at-home mom.

She was never a person to remain idle, however, so she filled her days making a beautiful home inside and out, serving at her church, chauffeuring her daughter to all her activities, and making beautiful quilts to donate to a women’s shelter and other places of need.

Beatriz gracefully, silently waltzed into heaven at 8:43 PM July 17, 2019, and is survived by her daughter Lisa María d’Aquila, her sister Rosa Miller, and numerous nieces and nephews. She was a very giving, loving, funny, generous, wise, beautiful person who blessed countless people. She will be deeply missed.

A celebration of her life will take place at 11 AM on Saturday September 21st at Lake

Forest Park Presbyterian Church; a graveside service will follow at 2:30 PM at Acacia Memorial Park & Funeral Home.

Bea loved caring for people who needed a gentle hand in their lives. She would be thrilled if you donated to one of the following organizations instead of sending flowers:

New Beginnings,

C/O Donnetta Vessell,

P.O. Box 75125,

Seattle, WA 98175

North Seattle Friends Church,

Stone Soup Quilting Ministry,

7740 24th Ave NE,

Seattle, WA 98115