Beatrice Mercedes Bailey

Beatrice Mercedes Bailey, 92-year-old resident of Little Falls, formerly of Royalton, died on September 21, at the Little Falls Care Center in Little Falls. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, October 16 at 11:00 A.M. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Royalton with Father Greg Paffle officiating. Visitation will be held from 4:00-7:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 15 at Emblom Brenny Funeral Service in Little Falls and from 9:30 A.M. until the hour of the service on Friday at the church. The burial will be held in the parish cemetery. A Rosary will be said at 4:30 followed by a time of sharing at 5:00 P.M. on Thursday evening at the funeral home. 

Beatrice Mercedes Seitz was born on January 7, 1934 in Forman, North Dakota to the late Sherwood Bretz and Bernice Alvina (Maercklein) Seitz. She grew up in Forman, ND with her parents and older siblings, Donald and Dorothy. Beatrice graduated from Forman High School with the class of 1954. She attended St. Teresa College in Winona, where she majored in Chemistry and minored in Biology and Math. Beatrice worked at Bethesda Hospital in Crookston, MN as a Med Tech. She was united in marriage to Douglas Bailey on November 28, 1959 at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Fargo, ND. After marriage Beatrice continued working as a Medical Technologist in Crookston, MN, St. Louis, MO and Fargo, ND. She helped organize an organization for the handicapped in Marshall, MN and worked as a hospice nurse, and chemist for a short time. She enjoyed knitting Afghans for babies, canning peaches, sauerkraut, tomatoes, apple sauce and pickles, hanging flowers from shepherd's hooks, vegetable gardening, fishing, and playing double solitaire with her sister Dorothy. She attended mass daily at Holy Trinity Catholic Church and was a member of Christian Mothers, Catholic Daughters and the Republican Party. 

Left to cherish her memory are her sons, Phil (Marion) of Conway, AR, Tom (Jennifer) of Sartell; daughter, Meg Bailey of Waite Park; and six grandchildren, Emily, Anna, Mathew (Mallory), Logan (Ashley), Ryan, and Peighton; and three great grandchildren Avah, Berkley, and Lucas. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, Douglas Bailey in 2018; son, John Bailey in 2008; siblings, Donald Seitz and Dorothy Seitz Acker. 

Emblom Brenny Funeral Service is Cherishing the Memory and Celebrating the Life of Beatrice.