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Submitted: 5/10/21 • Approved: 5/11/21 • Last Updated: 5/14/21 • R417685-G0-S3
December 12, 1953-July 2, 1955
Daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd D. Bell
Budded on earth to bloom in heaven
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Sharon Jean Bell, 18-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Dean Bell, formerly of Borger, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Church of the Nazarene, Borger. The Rev. Amos R. Meador, pastor, will officiate.
The Bell child drowned Saturday night in a stock pond on the Hansford ranch where the Bells now live. Bell recovered his daughter from the pond about 8:30 p.m. He said the child had wandered away while he was working and fell into the pond. She was pronounced dead on arrival at Guymon Municipal Hospital.
Survivors besides the parents are a sister, Linda Kathleen; a brother, Nickie Lee; her grandparents, A.E. Bell and Mrs. O.L. Nunley, Borger and Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Babb, Gleason, Tenn.
Interment will be in the Highland Park Cemetery, Borger.
(Published in Borger News Herald, July 4, 1955)
Contributed on 5/10/21
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Record #: 417685