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Obituary
Memory Lane Cemetery, Caddo County, Oklahoma
Submitted by:
Jo Aguirre
© Steverson Funeral Home Friday, March 29, 2013 Doris Ida [Jones] Wells Doris Ida Wells, 100, was born November 23, 1912, near Anadarko to Benjamin Franklin and Alice [Johnson] Jones. She passed away Friday, March 29, 2013, peacefully at her home in Anadarko. Doris went to Oakdale School, near Gracemont, through the 8th grade. In her youth, she loved to climb trees, ride horses and hunt with a .22 rifle. Doris spent her summers with her grandparents, Steven B. and Almina Jones, just South of Anadarko. Because there were eight children, her mom could spare her to help her grandparents do chores, work in the garden and help with the animals. She Married Walter Lee Wells May 9, 1931, and were married for 50 years. They had one son, Ewin F. Wells. Doris and Walter farmed for many years. They moved to town in 1959. She worked at the Anadarko Municipal for 25 years as a L.P.N. Doris always had a garden; loved digging in the earth and seeing what it would produce. She canned what she grew and shared the bounty with friend and neighbors. Doris loved sewing clothes and quilts. She crocheted and freely shared patterns with anyone that asked. Doris was fiercely independent and always kept busy. She was a member of St. Peter Lutheran Church of Apache, Oklahoma. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Walter Wells, son, Ewin F. Wells, four brothers and three sisters. Survivors include five grandchildren, Rosalie Booth of Anadarko, Wayne F. Wells and his wife, Nancy of Tecumseh, Michigan, Dwayne L. Wells and his wife, Teresa, Ernest E. Wells all of Farmington, New Mexico and Storm L. Sollars of Laramie, Wyoming; 11 great grandchildren; nine great great grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and other relatives including the much loved Johnson cousins and beloved friends, Frank and Ruby Mingus. Graveside services have been changed from 2 P.M. as earlier printed to 11 A.M., Wednesday, April 3, 2013, in the Memory Lane Cemetery under the direction of the Steverson Funeral Home. |
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