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Submitted: 2/12/22 • Approved: 2/12/22 • Last Updated: 2/15/22 • R489916-G489916-S3
Aubrey S.
July 23, 1903-November 18, 1977
Ermal Rose
August 23, 1904-December 9, 1974
May they find joy in the life everlasting
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Ermal Rose
Funeral services for Mrs. Aubrey Bell, 70, of 506 McKinley, are scheduled at 2 p.m. today in Wesley United Methodist Church, of which she was a member. The Rev. Jack Moore, pastor, and the Rev. Noah Arnpriester of North Platte, Neb., a former pastor, will officiate.
Burial will be in Friona Cemetery, directed by Gililland-Watson Funeral Home. The family requests that memorial gifts be made to the American Cancer Society.
Mrs. Bell was born Ermal Rose Nesbitt on Aug. 23, 1904 at McKinney. She and Aubrey Bell were married Aug. 24, 1925 at Lubbock and came to Deaf Smith County in 1928 from Friona.
Survivors are her husband; six daughters, Mrs. Bobby Frost of Hereford, Mrs. Bob Alexander of Amarillo, Mrs. Jack Funk of Lubbock, Mrs. Wayland Davis of Arlington, Mrs. Thomas Loveall of Preston, Ida., and Mrs. Jerry Holcomb of Memphis, Tenn., three sons, Jimmy and David of Hereford and Glenn of Lubbock.
Also surviving are five sisters, Mrs. Don O'Donald of Canyon, Lucille Stangle of Amarillo, Mrs. W.A. Miller of Lubbock, Mrs. Ernest Cotton of Littlefield, Mrs. Emmitt Scott of Pecos; four brothers, G.G. Nesbitt of Morton, Bill Nesbitt of Lubbock, James Nesbitt of Borger and Paul Nesbitt of Abernathy; 24 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 73rd Year, No. 99, Thursday, December 12, 1974, Page 4A)
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Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Nesbitt
Date of Birth: 22 Aug 1904
Birth County: Collin
Father's Name: L Nesbitt
Certificate Number: 29725
Roll Number: 1903_0020
Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Ermal Rosa Nesbitt
Birth Date: 22 Aug 1904
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Wylie, Collin, Texas, USA
Father: George Lawrence Nesbitt
Father Birth Place: Texas
Mother: Rosa Wilda Alexander
Mother Birth Place: Kentucky
Mother Residence: Wylie, Collin, Texas
Texas, U.S., Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Ermal Bell
Death Date: 9 Dec 1974
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Female
Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Ermal Rose Bell [Ermal Rose Nesbitt]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 70
Birth Date: 23 Aug 1904
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: USA, Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas
Death Date: 9 Dec 1974
Death Place: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Father:
Lawerence Nesbitt
Mother:
Rose Alexander
Spouse:
Aubrey Bell
Certificate Number: 88955
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Ermal Bell
Birth Date: 22 Aug 1904
Issue Year: Before 1951
Issue State: Texas
Last Residence: 79045, Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Death Date: Dec 1974
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