ENID, Okla. — WOODWARD — Graveside service for Beatrice Fern
Ellsworth, 81, will be 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Canton
Cemetery. Arrangements by Fairview Funeral Home Inc.
Beatrice Fern Ellsworth was born May 20, 1931, on a farm south of
Longdale to Lee Roy and Katherine Marie (Shellenberger) Pester and died
Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, at Fairview Regional Medical Center.
Before school Bea would go out and bring the milk cow up for milking,
feed chickens, water the gardens, help cook and cleaned house. During
the summers all the kids would go to the pond to swim and this is how
Bea received her nick name of fish bait. During WWII Bea helped hand out
food from the military to the needy families. Bea Married Wayne
Ellsworth and to the union was born three children, Valerie, Barbara and
Ricky.
Bea was always there when family or friends needed something
Surviving are daughters, Valerie and Rob Shields of Spearman, Texas, and
Barbara and LR Glover of Woodward; son, Ricky Ellsworth and life partner
David Webb of Oklahoma City; grandson, Anthony Glover; many nieces and
nephews, family, friends and numerous four-legged grandchildren.
Bea is preceded in death by her parents, Lee Roy and Katherine Pester,
three brothers, Pete Pester and 2 infants, three sisters, Hazel Houston
and Francis Chain and 1 infant.
Condolences online at www.fairviewfuneralhomeinc.com.
