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Frances Marie Shipley Bell © Enid News and Eagle 03-06-2007 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
The funeral for Frances Marie Bell Shipley, 76, will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Alva Assembly of God Church. The Rev. Mark Bagley will officiate. Burial will be in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery. Arrangements are by Goodwin Funeral Home of Cherokee. Visitation will be today from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. with the family present from 4-5 p.m. at the funeral home.
She was born Aug. 22, 1930, in Pittsburg, Pa., to Joseph Andrew and Mary Elizabeth Coulbourne Johnson and died March 3, 2007, in Alva.
She grew up in Pittsburg and attended school for the blind in Boston. She later moved to Cherokee and worked at the corset factory. She married Alva Bell Sept. 18, 1950, and they made their home in Cherokee. He died June 28, 1994. She later married Albert Shipley in 1999 in Van Buren, Ark. He died in 2004. She returned to Cherokee and later moved to Alva. She was a member of Assembly of God Church and Senior Citizens.
Surviving are her children, Frank Bell of Billings, Mo., Mary Arndt of Nampa, Idaho, David Bell and Mike Bell, both of Cherokee, Clyde Bell and Ruth Bradford, both of Alva, and Martha Dixon of Jesup, Ga.; one sister, Emily Sanborn of Enfield, Conn.; 33 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and 15 stepchildren.
In addition to her husbands, she was preceded in death by one son, one daughter, three grandchildren and one brother.
Alva L. Bell 06-1994 Submitted by: Tim Dotterer
The funeral for Alva L. Bell, 84, was at 10 AM Friday at the Cherokee Assembly of God. The Rev.'s Pat Vaughan and Howard Snell officiated. Burial was in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery, directed by Goodwin Funeral Home. He died June 28, 1994 at Bass Memorial Baptist Hospital.
He was born June 23, 1910 in Guthrie to Baxter Wood and Corneilia Lee Fraze Bell. He grew up in Guthrie and lived in several cities before moving to Cherokee in 1948.
On October 18, 1950 he married Frances Johnson in Cherokee where they made their home. He worked for the City of Cherokee, retiring in 1986. He was a member of Cherokee Assembly of God.
He is survived by his wife; five sons, Frank of Billings, Missouri, David of Driftwood, Mike and Clyde of Cherokee and Paul of Jet; three daughters, Mary Arnt of Napa, Idaho, Ruth Bradford of Cherokee and Martha Strickland of Jessup, Georgia; two sisters, Rachel Anderson of Cherokee and Clara Racotory of Union City, California; 25 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a daughter and two brothers.
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