Joplin Globe, Saturday, April 5, 1975

  Mrs. Esther Teresa Schell, 77, Washburn, Missouri, died at 4:16 a.m. on April 4, 1975, at the Rogers Memorial Hospital, Rogers, Arkansas where she had been a patient for one day.

  She was born December 5, 1897, in Stella, Missouri and was a member of the Methodist Church. On February 2, 1917, she married Amos Schell who died in 1965.

  Survivors include two sons, Carl Schell, Lowell, ARkansas and Billy Schell, Washburn, a daughter, Mrs. Amy Prime, Washburn, a brother, Wyatt Laughlin, Riverton, Kansas, six sisters,  Mrs. Ruth Ellis, Pineville, Mrs. Rena Lawson, Ramona, Oklahoma, Mrs. Rachel Bunch, Webb City, Missouri, Mrs. Hattie Schell, Delhi, California, Mrs. Georgia Camp and Mrs. Willa Bowman, both of Neosho, 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

 Services will be at 2:00 p.m. Sunday at teh Roller Methodist Church under the direction of Sisco Funeral Home, Pea Ridge, Arkansas.

submitted by Lois Plett