Katherina "Kat" Mae (Goseco) Bean

2021.

She was born on August 28, 1962, to Frank and Mae

Goseco, who preceded her in death. She is survived by

her husband Dr. Francis Bean, and brothers Frank

Goseco of Newport Beach, California, and John

Goseco, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

Just after her birth, General Chuck Yeager was the

second person to hold her; she later affectionately

called him “Uncle Chuck”.

Katherina led an active life. Fearless, determined, and talented. When she set out to accomplish a

task, she put every effort into it, and was successful.

Katherina’s father was a Major in the U.S. Air Force, so she attended schools in Switzerland;

England; Austin, Texas, and Irvine High School, in California, where she was the class president

in all her years in high school.

At the time, she was the only girl to try out for the football team; she played in one game and

was roughly persuaded to leave that hitting game-playing to the boys. However, she was

undaunted, blazing paths on dirt bikes and flying a crop duster solo at 500ft above the deck.

She loved to surf and when she lived at the beach, she would get up early to surf, then go to

school, often with wet hair.

Age 15, she was recruited to a think tank. She went on to obtain her first college degree, shortly

thereafter, she was accepted to MIT. She earned multiple degrees in her life including a doctorate

in Physics and holds the equivalent of an LLM or MBA and JD combined from Oxford

University, a baccalaureate in Business from California State Fullerton, not to mention multiple

certificate programs. She studied at MIT, Oxford University, and Cal State Fullerton. She

excelled in all her academic pursuits.

She was the first female to be accepted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but she

decided that getting up at “zero dark thirty” was not for her.

As an avid skier, she was a member of the U.S. Olympic Downhill ski team, and later was a

member of the ski patrol of Hunt Hollow in the Finger Lakes area in New York state.

Katherina was an executive in the legal department at Walt Disney Company, where she

accomplished tasks previously thought impossible. Her first job was to travel around the United

States and obtain licensing rights from actors, producers, writers, and musicians to allow the

studio to use their voices, images, and music. She did this with amazing speed, proficiency, and

grace, at little cost to the company. She was an integral part of the team for development and

expansion of the Disney empire, in places such as Moscow, Russia, and Paris, France. Disney valued her skills to such a degree, that they insisted that she accompany President Reagan to

Moscow, for a famous meeting with Russian President Gorbachev. She made the company a lot

of money, then left to care for her mother who was suffering from terminal cancer. She later

consulted for Disney, was the size 2 fit model for Vera Wang, and had one of the longest running

modeling contracts as a fit model for a European company for over 30 years.

The U.S. Department of State offered her a Consular post position within the Diplomatic

Missions Abroad section. She ultimately declined that position, and subsequently accepted a

position as a consultant, and functioned in that capacity for many years. She was the only

candidate, out of 32,000 candidates tested, to score perfectly on the entrance exam.

She acquired an English Law degree and worked for one of the largest law firms in the world on

some of the most technical cases as the lone “American”, who the Senior Partners respected so

highly, that the other partners were instructed to “listen to what she says”. Katherina always

thought outside the box at a level that few could comprehend, yet she could explain the most

complex things in terms that would be easily understood by and tailored to whatever audience

she happened to be addressing.

Katherina was a global intelligence consultant to the U.S. Department of State, the US military,

N.A.S.A., multiple NGO’s especially Catholic and Christian organizations who often travelled

into dangerous environments. She would arrange and assure their safe return, including Doctors

Without Borders (often pro bono). She was an International Process Management, Legal and

Research Consultant for Fortune 50 companies such as Corning, Apple, Lilly, and Tesla. During

her work and private life, she travelled to multiple cities of every country numerous times. One

of her favorite places was Venice Italy where she celebrated her birthday about 15 years in a

row. So much so, that she was often invited to affluent people’s homes, and often the Venice

film festival, including the after-festival party by the film makers and actors where she once

politely declined a dance request from George Clooney.

She excelled in scull and sweep rowing (Crewing), and on one occasion, with other rowers who

had not previously rowed together, formed a team at Buffalo, New York, competed and won

against other seasoned rowing teams. She was a Crewing instructor at Cornell University, where

she also lectured. She famously emergency landed a twin prop airplane with one engine smoking

out, on a glider plane airport runway near Burlington Vermont to attend Craftsbury Rowing

Center. She took up Muay Thai kickboxing along with her husband to “get in shape for their

wedding!”

Kat was a wanted woman; she was pursued by diplomats, princes, actors, pro athletes, movie

stars and producers, millionaires, and billionaires across the globe. Yet she also spent several

years in a small Catholic Convent in Louisville, KY discerning whether she had a religious

vocation as a Catholic nun. Although she ultimately decided that was not what she was destined

to do, she lived her whole life listening to and trying to please God and do what was right as her

number one guide. She finally married for the first time, at 47 years old to the love of her life,

Dr. Francis Bean, personally met Pope Benedict XVI for the Sposi Novelli Blessing of new

couples, and moved to Indiana to continue her consulting work, support his practice, and begin

their ministry for God together.

She was a member of Mensa Honor Society, and the American Legion Auxiliary. She was also a

member of Rolling Thunder, Chapter One in Indiana, whose members memorialize and honor

military POW’s and MIA’s—who are generally forgotten by most Americans. She had a great

love for those who served in the military, especially since her father was an Air Force fighter

pilot. She was in process to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution

(D.A.R.). Katherina was thrilled to be considered for membership in D.A.R.—relatively few are

qualified.

All good people were attracted to her natural grace and beauty, and for all those who knew

Katherina, she brought sunshine into their lives. She had a high capacity for empathy, and

compassion. She was kind, generous, caring, considerate and always thoughtful of others needs

above her own. She was the embodiment of one her favorite sayings: “We must exhibit first,

Beauty, Goodness and Truth”. Her physical beauty was exceeded only by her enormous heart,

genius mind and infinite charity. Her light and life and a keen sense of justice changed many

people’s lives for the better. She will be dearly missed, and forever loved by many across the

entire world, especially those of us fortunate enough to have been loved by her and shared a part

of her extraordinary, yet entirely too brief, life.