Marion "Beth" Barton Bell
1928 - 2015
Early Life: Beth was born July 30, 1928, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Edgar M. and Flavilla Tuft Barton, the "caboose" of the Barton family. The excited siblings of the new baby sister were Allan Barton, Laura (Holmes), Norma (Warren) and Lillian (Swenson). Beth attended Riverside Elementary, Jordan Jr. High and graduated from West High School. She sang with the high school acapella choir. She recalled, with accuracy, her school memories and activities; she has shared a lifetime with her dearest and closest friends from school days. Beth still, to the end, would/could sing the West High Panther school song with enthusiasm and loyalty.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: Following graduation, she worked in downtown Salt Lake City, for Montgomery Ward. She later accepted a job as the receptionist for USF & G Insurance. On March 27, 1951, Beth married Don J. Bell in the Salt Lake Temple. Soon they moved to Fort Reilly, Kansas, where Don was stationed in the United States Army until his deployment to Japan. From Kansas, she moved back to Utah to be close to her siblings and their families. She worked, raised children, and succeeded as a dedicated wife, mother and homemaker. It was in 1962 that the Bell family moved to Chino, California. Beth went to work immediately as the secretary to thoroughbred horse breeder, Rex Ellsworth. She had excellent typing skills, was so good with people, and a most dependable employee. Other employment was with Sears in the customer service department and after 19 years, retired from Claremont McKenna Admissions Secretary. There is nothing more important to Beth than her family, faith and country. She supported her four children to the height of "Best Mother in the World" award. It is only fitting that her six grandchildren are the greatest treasures she could have. She raised them with unwavering faith, a testimony of God, and served with dedicated love in her church callings and assignments. She is a woman of friendliness, truth, sense of humor, hugs, ball games, love of people, and animals (especially Abe), sunsets, mountains, and flowers. Her favorite colors: red, white and blue...need anything else be said? Marion "Beth" Barton Bell's earth life was completed Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Orem, Utah, at the home of her daughter, where she had resided for eleven years. Her passing was incident to age, dementia, and a worn out body. She was 86.
Survived By: Her children: Wendy, Blair, April and Drew; her beloved grandchildren: Joshua, Micah, Megan Zushi, Kyle, Kaitlyn and Kelsey Bell; seventeen nieces and nephews; son-in-law and daughter-in-law are included in her living legacy.
Preceded In Death By: Her husband, parents and siblings.
Services: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Location: Orchard 7th Ward Chapel | Orem, Utah
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery
Obituary: © Utah Valley Mortuary | Aug 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
1928 - 2015
Early Life: Beth was born July 30, 1928, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Edgar M. and Flavilla Tuft Barton, the "caboose" of the Barton family. The excited siblings of the new baby sister were Allan Barton, Laura (Holmes), Norma (Warren) and Lillian (Swenson). Beth attended Riverside Elementary, Jordan Jr. High and graduated from West High School. She sang with the high school acapella choir. She recalled, with accuracy, her school memories and activities; she has shared a lifetime with her dearest and closest friends from school days. Beth still, to the end, would/could sing the West High Panther school song with enthusiasm and loyalty.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: Following graduation, she worked in downtown Salt Lake City, for Montgomery Ward. She later accepted a job as the receptionist for USF & G Insurance. On March 27, 1951, Beth married Don J. Bell in the Salt Lake Temple. Soon they moved to Fort Reilly, Kansas, where Don was stationed in the United States Army until his deployment to Japan. From Kansas, she moved back to Utah to be close to her siblings and their families. She worked, raised children, and succeeded as a dedicated wife, mother and homemaker. It was in 1962 that the Bell family moved to Chino, California. Beth went to work immediately as the secretary to thoroughbred horse breeder, Rex Ellsworth. She had excellent typing skills, was so good with people, and a most dependable employee. Other employment was with Sears in the customer service department and after 19 years, retired from Claremont McKenna Admissions Secretary. There is nothing more important to Beth than her family, faith and country. She supported her four children to the height of "Best Mother in the World" award. It is only fitting that her six grandchildren are the greatest treasures she could have. She raised them with unwavering faith, a testimony of God, and served with dedicated love in her church callings and assignments. She is a woman of friendliness, truth, sense of humor, hugs, ball games, love of people, and animals (especially Abe), sunsets, mountains, and flowers. Her favorite colors: red, white and blue...need anything else be said? Marion "Beth" Barton Bell's earth life was completed Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Orem, Utah, at the home of her daughter, where she had resided for eleven years. Her passing was incident to age, dementia, and a worn out body. She was 86.
Survived By: Her children: Wendy, Blair, April and Drew; her beloved grandchildren: Joshua, Micah, Megan Zushi, Kyle, Kaitlyn and Kelsey Bell; seventeen nieces and nephews; son-in-law and daughter-in-law are included in her living legacy.
Preceded In Death By: Her husband, parents and siblings.
Services: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Location: Orchard 7th Ward Chapel | Orem, Utah
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery
Obituary: © Utah Valley Mortuary | Aug 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
Marion "Beth" Barton Bell
1928 - 2015
Early Life: Beth was born July 30, 1928, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Edgar M. and Flavilla Tuft Barton, the "caboose" of the Barton family. The excited siblings of the new baby sister were Allan Barton, Laura (Holmes), Norma (Warren) and Lillian (Swenson). Beth attended Riverside Elementary, Jordan Jr. High and graduated from West High School. She sang with the high school acapella choir. She recalled, with accuracy, her school memories and activities; she has shared a lifetime with her dearest and closest friends from school days. Beth still, to the end, would/could sing the West High Panther school song with enthusiasm and loyalty.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: Following graduation, she worked in downtown Salt Lake City, for Montgomery Ward. She later accepted a job as the receptionist for USF & G Insurance. On March 27, 1951, Beth married Don J. Bell in the Salt Lake Temple. Soon they moved to Fort Reilly, Kansas, where Don was stationed in the United States Army until his deployment to Japan. From Kansas, she moved back to Utah to be close to her siblings and their families. She worked, raised children, and succeeded as a dedicated wife, mother and homemaker. It was in 1962 that the Bell family moved to Chino, California. Beth went to work immediately as the secretary to thoroughbred horse breeder, Rex Ellsworth. She had excellent typing skills, was so good with people, and a most dependable employee. Other employment was with Sears in the customer service department and after 19 years, retired from Claremont McKenna Admissions Secretary. There is nothing more important to Beth than her family, faith and country. She supported her four children to the height of "Best Mother in the World" award. It is only fitting that her six grandchildren are the greatest treasures she could have. She raised them with unwavering faith, a testimony of God, and served with dedicated love in her church callings and assignments. She is a woman of friendliness, truth, sense of humor, hugs, ball games, love of people, and animals (especially Abe), sunsets, mountains, and flowers. Her favorite colors: red, white and blue...need anything else be said? Marion "Beth" Barton Bell's earth life was completed Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Orem, Utah, at the home of her daughter, where she had resided for eleven years. Her passing was incident to age, dementia, and a worn out body. She was 86.
Survived By: Her children: Wendy, Blair, April and Drew; her beloved grandchildren: Joshua, Micah, Megan Zushi, Kyle, Kaitlyn and Kelsey Bell; seventeen nieces and nephews; son-in-law and daughter-in-law are included in her living legacy.
Preceded In Death By: Her husband, parents and siblings.
Services: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Location: Orchard 7th Ward Chapel | Orem, Utah
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery
Obituary: © Utah Valley Mortuary | Aug 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
1928 - 2015
Early Life: Beth was born July 30, 1928, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Edgar M. and Flavilla Tuft Barton, the "caboose" of the Barton family. The excited siblings of the new baby sister were Allan Barton, Laura (Holmes), Norma (Warren) and Lillian (Swenson). Beth attended Riverside Elementary, Jordan Jr. High and graduated from West High School. She sang with the high school acapella choir. She recalled, with accuracy, her school memories and activities; she has shared a lifetime with her dearest and closest friends from school days. Beth still, to the end, would/could sing the West High Panther school song with enthusiasm and loyalty.
Life's Work | Service | Interests: Following graduation, she worked in downtown Salt Lake City, for Montgomery Ward. She later accepted a job as the receptionist for USF & G Insurance. On March 27, 1951, Beth married Don J. Bell in the Salt Lake Temple. Soon they moved to Fort Reilly, Kansas, where Don was stationed in the United States Army until his deployment to Japan. From Kansas, she moved back to Utah to be close to her siblings and their families. She worked, raised children, and succeeded as a dedicated wife, mother and homemaker. It was in 1962 that the Bell family moved to Chino, California. Beth went to work immediately as the secretary to thoroughbred horse breeder, Rex Ellsworth. She had excellent typing skills, was so good with people, and a most dependable employee. Other employment was with Sears in the customer service department and after 19 years, retired from Claremont McKenna Admissions Secretary. There is nothing more important to Beth than her family, faith and country. She supported her four children to the height of "Best Mother in the World" award. It is only fitting that her six grandchildren are the greatest treasures she could have. She raised them with unwavering faith, a testimony of God, and served with dedicated love in her church callings and assignments. She is a woman of friendliness, truth, sense of humor, hugs, ball games, love of people, and animals (especially Abe), sunsets, mountains, and flowers. Her favorite colors: red, white and blue...need anything else be said? Marion "Beth" Barton Bell's earth life was completed Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Orem, Utah, at the home of her daughter, where she had resided for eleven years. Her passing was incident to age, dementia, and a worn out body. She was 86.
Survived By: Her children: Wendy, Blair, April and Drew; her beloved grandchildren: Joshua, Micah, Megan Zushi, Kyle, Kaitlyn and Kelsey Bell; seventeen nieces and nephews; son-in-law and daughter-in-law are included in her living legacy.
Preceded In Death By: Her husband, parents and siblings.
Services: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Location: Orchard 7th Ward Chapel | Orem, Utah
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills Cemetery
Obituary: © Utah Valley Mortuary | Aug 2017
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
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MARRIED MAR. 25, 1951
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Interment 9 May 2015
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