Obit of Anna Bell Harper (h616) - Kiowa County, Oklahoma 14 Aug 2002 Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ==================================================================== Anna Bell Harper SHAMROCK - Anna Bell Harper, 98, died Thursday, June 13, 2002. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Samnorwood Baptist Church with the Rev. Dean Driver, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Shamrock Cemetery by Wright Funeral Directors. Mrs. Harper was born June 17, 1903, in Lone Wolf, Okla., to the Rev. R.P. and Sarah Isabell Bates. She was a resident of Oklahoma City for more than 40 years before moving to Shamrock in 1976. She was a member of the Samnorwood Baptist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star and the Rebekah Lodge. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence Harper; two daughters; two sons; her parents; seven brothers; a sister; and a grandson. Survivors include two sons, Joe Lenderman and wife, Emy, of Samnorwood and Richard Harper and wife, Sylvia, of Choctaw, Okla.; two daughters, Bobbie Snead and husband, J.C., of Samnorwood and LaVelle Morgan and husband, Fred, of Pottsboro; 13 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials be to Samnorwood Baptist Church. Amarillo Globe-News, June 15, 2002