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Shirley A. Whistler Bell

Birth
Iowa, USA
Death
20 Dec 2013 (aged 76)
Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
Burial
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Shirley A. Bell
1937-2013
Shirley A. Bell, age 76, of Coffeyville,KS, passed away Friday, December 20, 2013 at Medicalodge in Coffeyville.
Cremation has taken place with services to be held at a later date. Memorial contributions have been requested to the Medicalodges of Coffeyville Employee's Fund and may be sent to Zach Webb Family Funeral Service, 1475 S. 10th, Independence, KS, 67301.
Shirley Bell was born April 19, 1937 in Belmont, Iowa, to Robert and Gweneth (Slater) Whistler. She was raised in Eagle Grove, Iowa. She graduated high school from Toledo, Iowa class of 1956 and graduated Iowa State Teachers College in 1960.
She married Ralph Bell in 1967 and they divorced in 1986. In 1996 she became companions with Jimmie Doug Sawyers until his death in May 2012.
She was a homemaker from 1967 to 1978 when she began her in home business of grooming dogs. She began raising and showing Great Danes in about 1979 until 1986, when she began working as an in-home helper until 1988 when she started working for several doctors in the Coffeyville area until her health began to fail.
She was a former volunteer for the Coffeyville Humane society and the Lewark Church of God in Coffeyville.
She is survived by two sons; Lewis Bell and Victor Bell, both of Coffeyville, KS.
Sister, Bonnie Adams, Pennsylvania. Two brothers: Donald Whistler, Arkansas and Roger Slater, Eagle Grove, IA. Numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, and brother, Harold.
Services under the direction of locally-owned Zach Webb Family Funeral Service, Independence.
Shirley A. Bell
1937-2013
Shirley A. Bell, age 76, of Coffeyville,KS, passed away Friday, December 20, 2013 at Medicalodge in Coffeyville.
Cremation has taken place with services to be held at a later date. Memorial contributions have been requested to the Medicalodges of Coffeyville Employee's Fund and may be sent to Zach Webb Family Funeral Service, 1475 S. 10th, Independence, KS, 67301.
Shirley Bell was born April 19, 1937 in Belmont, Iowa, to Robert and Gweneth (Slater) Whistler. She was raised in Eagle Grove, Iowa. She graduated high school from Toledo, Iowa class of 1956 and graduated Iowa State Teachers College in 1960.
She married Ralph Bell in 1967 and they divorced in 1986. In 1996 she became companions with Jimmie Doug Sawyers until his death in May 2012.
She was a homemaker from 1967 to 1978 when she began her in home business of grooming dogs. She began raising and showing Great Danes in about 1979 until 1986, when she began working as an in-home helper until 1988 when she started working for several doctors in the Coffeyville area until her health began to fail.
She was a former volunteer for the Coffeyville Humane society and the Lewark Church of God in Coffeyville.
She is survived by two sons; Lewis Bell and Victor Bell, both of Coffeyville, KS.
Sister, Bonnie Adams, Pennsylvania. Two brothers: Donald Whistler, Arkansas and Roger Slater, Eagle Grove, IA. Numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, and brother, Harold.
Services under the direction of locally-owned Zach Webb Family Funeral Service, Independence.

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