Carolyn Beug

Carolyn Beug

Not only had Santa Monica filmmaker and video producer Carolyn Beug, 48, won an award for her work on the ‘90s Van Halen video “Right Now,” she was writing a children’s book. It was to have been the story of Noah’s Ark, told from the point of view of Noah’s wife.

In her North 25th Street neighborhood where she lived in a Tudor-style home, Beug was a popular figure. She hosted an annual backyard barbecue for the Santa Monica High School girls track team. Her twin daughters, Lauren and Lindsey Mayer-Beug, 18, served as team captains.

Their mother was their most fervent cheerleader, attending every meet in a Santa Monica High School warmup suit. She also shared her home with a 13-year-old son, Nicky, and a husband, John Beug, a senior vice president in charge of filmed production for Warner Bros.’ record division.

“She was so proud of her twins. Carolyn did everything with great gusto and passion. She was always thinking of something fun for her kids to do to enjoy life,” said film producer Denise Di Novi, her next-door neighbor. “She would get up and mountain-bike for 20 miles at 5 in the morning. She had so much energy.”

Beug was seated on American Airlines Flight 11 with her mother, Mary Alice Wahlstrom, 75, a Utah resident. She was returning home from taking her twins to college at Rhode Island School of Design.