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                          OA Online Death Notices.
                                      
                               July 02, 2001
                                      
                                Myrtle Bell
    ODESSA Myrtle Bell, 82, of Odessa, a homemaker, died Sunday, July 1,
                     2001, at Medical Center Hospital.
     Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Eisenhower Church of
   Christ with Burt Groves and David Broen officiating. Burial will be at
    Sunset Memorial Gardens. Arrangements by Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home.
    She was born in Whiteflat. She was a member of the Church of Christ.
   SURVIVORS: Sons, Lee Roy Bell of Odessa and Don Bell of Oklahoma City;
    daughters, Lula Duncan and Jo Anne Pitman, both of Odessa; brothers,
    Othoe Stegal of Paris, Texas, and Henry Rollins of Richardson; and a
                   sister, Mary Curby of Fairview, Okla.
                                Jody Branch
    CARLSBAD, N.M. Jody Earl Freeman Branch, 42, of Carlsbad, N.M., died
            Thursday, June 28, 2001, at Colombia Medical Center.
    Graveside service will be at 10 a.m. today at the Fairview Cemetery
   with the Rev. Lloyd Conner officiating. Arrangements by Pecos Funeral
                                   Home.
                   He was born in Pecos. He was Baptist.
      SURVIVORS: Mother, Billie Gille of Marfa; father, Joe Branch of
       Porter; sisters, Krystal Branch of Houston and Penny Branch of
                                 Arkansas.
                                Maxine Rives
     MCCAMEY Maxine Rives, 75, of McCamey, a retired teacher and former
   trustee on the McCamey school board, died Saturday, June 30, 2001, in
                                  Odessa.
       Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First United
    Methodist Church in McCamey with the Rev. Ernest Easley officiating.
        Interment will follow in the Resthaven Cemetery in McCamey.
               Arrangements by Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home.
    She was born in Chapman Ranch, and was a resident of McCamey for 48
         years before moving to Odessa in 2000. She was Methodist.
   SURVIVORS: Husband, Billy Rives of Odessa; son, Randy Rives of Odessa;
    brother, Dr. Barcus Moore of Corpus Christi; sister, Vera Vernon of
                     Houston; and three grandchildren.
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