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Submitted: 11/19/24 • Approved: 12/17/24 • Last Updated: 12/20/24 • R1548263-G1548261-S3
Mary Bell
1920 - 2014
Lester Lynn
1920 - 2003
*Obituary
Mary Bell Shemwell passed away on June 10,2014. She was born in DeWitt,Ark. on Sept 28, 1920 to the late John and Ida Stocks. Mary was married to Lester Shemwell on July 3, 1940. She was a loving daughter,wife, and mother. Mary was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lester Shemwell; one granddaughter,Sherri Hall; three sisters; and two brothers. She is survived by one daughter, Mary Hall of Little Rock, Ark; one great-grandchild, Matthew Warren of Greenville,N.C; one sister, Helen Jackson of Bastrop, La.; and many nieces and nephews.
*When Lester Lynn Shemwell was born on September 8, 1920, in Higden, Arkansas, his father, Horace, was 31 and his mother, Zelpha, was 20. He married Mary Belle Stocks in Pulaski, Arkansas. They had one child during their marriage. He died on February 3, 2003, in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the age of 82, and was buried in Alexander, Arkansas.
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