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Crable Blankenbaker Bell

Birth
Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri, USA
Death
7 Apr 1992 (aged 89)
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 10, Lot 174, Space 1
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Crable Moten Bell Crable Moten Bell, 89, central Kansas City, widow of Kansas City jazz band leader Bennie Moten , died April 7, 1992, at the home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the Ward Chapel AME Church; burial in Forest Hill Cemetery. Friends may call from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday at the church.

Mrs. Bell was secretary for the Zella Mae Moten and Sondra Scott Dance Studio and the chaplain of the Zellanetts Drill Team Parents Club. She was a 59-year member of the church and a member of its supply team. She was a member of the Jolly 12.

Her first husband, Bennie Moten , died in 1935. Her second husband, James A. Bell, died in 1979. A daughter, Zella Mae Moten Hunter, died Jan. 7, 1991. She was born in Boonville, Mo., and lived in Kansas City most of her life. Survivors include three granddaughters, Sondra Scott of the home and Katherine Greer and LaTasha Grayes of Kansas City; two grandsons, Dennis Greer and DuJung Grayes of Kansas City; and two great-grandchildren.

-Kansas City Star, April 9, 1992
Crable Moten Bell Crable Moten Bell, 89, central Kansas City, widow of Kansas City jazz band leader Bennie Moten , died April 7, 1992, at the home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the Ward Chapel AME Church; burial in Forest Hill Cemetery. Friends may call from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday at the church.

Mrs. Bell was secretary for the Zella Mae Moten and Sondra Scott Dance Studio and the chaplain of the Zellanetts Drill Team Parents Club. She was a 59-year member of the church and a member of its supply team. She was a member of the Jolly 12.

Her first husband, Bennie Moten , died in 1935. Her second husband, James A. Bell, died in 1979. A daughter, Zella Mae Moten Hunter, died Jan. 7, 1991. She was born in Boonville, Mo., and lived in Kansas City most of her life. Survivors include three granddaughters, Sondra Scott of the home and Katherine Greer and LaTasha Grayes of Kansas City; two grandsons, Dennis Greer and DuJung Grayes of Kansas City; and two great-grandchildren.

-Kansas City Star, April 9, 1992

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  • Created by: Sam Hughes
  • Added: Jul 5, 2013
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113350607/crable-bell: accessed ), memorial page for Crable Blankenbaker Bell (6 Jun 1902–7 Apr 1992), Find a Grave Memorial ID 113350607, citing Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA; Maintained by Sam Hughes (contributor 47305492).