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Margie Fern Bell

(March 6, 1930 - July 15, 2012)

© Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Funeral Home

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Margie F. McFarland Bell was born March 6, 1930, in Hugo Oklahoma to Rev. Malcom N. (Brother Mac) and Levena Frances (Aunt Sis) Oakes McFarland. She joined her heavenly father on July 15, 2012.

She graduated from Hugo High School in 1948 and Southeastern Oklahoma State University in 1964. She worked as a telephone operator for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company for 15 years until she started teaching elementary school in Denison in 1964. She taught at Peabody and Houston elementary until she retired in 1990. Margie was a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Her maternal great grandmother, Harriet Everidge, came to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears.

Music was a big part of Margie’s life. She sang in many gospel quartets and loved to attend gospel singings. After retiring Margie enjoyed traveling and most of all babysitting her beloved grandson, Jacob. She also loved to play 42 and never turned down a game when presented with the opportunity

She was preceded in death by her parents and brothers David McFarland, Lawrence McFarland, E.L. (Sug) McFarland, and sisters Irene McFarland and Fairy Wheelus.

She is survived by daughters Susie Bell Marshall and husband Reed of Arlington, TX, and Donna Bell of Denison, TX, grandsons, Jacob Raney of Denison, TX, and Josh Marshall of Arlington, TX, two great grandchildren, Karlie Marshall and Blaze Reed Marshall of Arlington, TX, and brother Malcolm McFarland, of Placerville, CA, several nieces and nephews and many many cousins and friends.

Susie and Donna would like to send a special thanks to the loving staff at Crawford Street Place Assisted Living and to Changing Seasons Home Health for the wonderful care they gave our mother in the last years of her life. We feel truly blessed to have had all of these amazing people to help take care of our mother and she appreciated and loved all of them.

Memorials can be made to the American Diabetes Assoc. or a charity of your choice.

Services will be held in the chapel at The Prater-Lampton-Mills &Coffey Funeral Home Chapel in Hugo, Oklahoma on Thursday, July 19th at 10:30 a.m. and burial will follow in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Hugo, with the Rev. Doug McClure officiating. Pallbearers will be Reed Marshall, Josh Marshall, Jacob Raney, Tom Wheelus, Mike Williams, and Monty Garner.

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