E. Joan Coon Bell, 74, died Nov. 26, 2002, at her residence.
She was born March 4, 1928, in Marion to Herman Guy and Mildred Florine Hill Stoneburner. On Sept. 16, 1945, she married Harold O. Bell, who died Feb. 28, 1974.
Mrs. Bell was a homemaker and had formerly been a machine helper at the Benjamin Steel Corp. in Chicago. She had been affiliated with Nazarene churches and had played the coronet in the Salvation Army Band in Lima during World War II. She loved to read, draw, sew and crochet.
Survivors include two sons, Leslie H. (Diane) Bell of Lima and John P. (Anna) Bell of Spencerville; two daughters, Connie J. Bell of Richland, Wash., and Kathy L. (Mark) Nelson of Huntsville; four brothers, Sonny (Isabelle) Stoneburner, Donald Stoneburner and Terry Stoneburner, all of Lima, and Michael (Vickie) Stoneburner of Houston, Texas; a sister, Dorcas (Tom) Shaw of Alger; 14 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by three sisters, Audrey Brown, and infants Evon and Lorene Stoneburner; and a great-grandchild.
Services will be held at Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral Home in Spencerville. Burial will be in Spencerville Cemetery.
(excerpts from The Lima News)
She was born March 4, 1928, in Marion to Herman Guy and Mildred Florine Hill Stoneburner. On Sept. 16, 1945, she married Harold O. Bell, who died Feb. 28, 1974.
Mrs. Bell was a homemaker and had formerly been a machine helper at the Benjamin Steel Corp. in Chicago. She had been affiliated with Nazarene churches and had played the coronet in the Salvation Army Band in Lima during World War II. She loved to read, draw, sew and crochet.
Survivors include two sons, Leslie H. (Diane) Bell of Lima and John P. (Anna) Bell of Spencerville; two daughters, Connie J. Bell of Richland, Wash., and Kathy L. (Mark) Nelson of Huntsville; four brothers, Sonny (Isabelle) Stoneburner, Donald Stoneburner and Terry Stoneburner, all of Lima, and Michael (Vickie) Stoneburner of Houston, Texas; a sister, Dorcas (Tom) Shaw of Alger; 14 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by three sisters, Audrey Brown, and infants Evon and Lorene Stoneburner; and a great-grandchild.
Services will be held at Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral Home in Spencerville. Burial will be in Spencerville Cemetery.
(excerpts from The Lima News)
E. Joan Coon Bell, 74, died Nov. 26, 2002, at her residence.
She was born March 4, 1928, in Marion to Herman Guy and Mildred Florine Hill Stoneburner. On Sept. 16, 1945, she married Harold O. Bell, who died Feb. 28, 1974.
Mrs. Bell was a homemaker and had formerly been a machine helper at the Benjamin Steel Corp. in Chicago. She had been affiliated with Nazarene churches and had played the coronet in the Salvation Army Band in Lima during World War II. She loved to read, draw, sew and crochet.
Survivors include two sons, Leslie H. (Diane) Bell of Lima and John P. (Anna) Bell of Spencerville; two daughters, Connie J. Bell of Richland, Wash., and Kathy L. (Mark) Nelson of Huntsville; four brothers, Sonny (Isabelle) Stoneburner, Donald Stoneburner and Terry Stoneburner, all of Lima, and Michael (Vickie) Stoneburner of Houston, Texas; a sister, Dorcas (Tom) Shaw of Alger; 14 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by three sisters, Audrey Brown, and infants Evon and Lorene Stoneburner; and a great-grandchild.
Services will be held at Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral Home in Spencerville. Burial will be in Spencerville Cemetery.
(excerpts from The Lima News)
She was born March 4, 1928, in Marion to Herman Guy and Mildred Florine Hill Stoneburner. On Sept. 16, 1945, she married Harold O. Bell, who died Feb. 28, 1974.
Mrs. Bell was a homemaker and had formerly been a machine helper at the Benjamin Steel Corp. in Chicago. She had been affiliated with Nazarene churches and had played the coronet in the Salvation Army Band in Lima during World War II. She loved to read, draw, sew and crochet.
Survivors include two sons, Leslie H. (Diane) Bell of Lima and John P. (Anna) Bell of Spencerville; two daughters, Connie J. Bell of Richland, Wash., and Kathy L. (Mark) Nelson of Huntsville; four brothers, Sonny (Isabelle) Stoneburner, Donald Stoneburner and Terry Stoneburner, all of Lima, and Michael (Vickie) Stoneburner of Houston, Texas; a sister, Dorcas (Tom) Shaw of Alger; 14 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by three sisters, Audrey Brown, and infants Evon and Lorene Stoneburner; and a great-grandchild.
Services will be held at Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral Home in Spencerville. Burial will be in Spencerville Cemetery.
(excerpts from The Lima News)
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