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Submitted: 11/17/09 • Approved: 4/28/14 • Last Updated: 5/1/14 • R259850-G0-S3
Apr 24 1942 - Oct 23 1995
Mrs. Martha Faye Stansell, 53, of Route 6, Box 50-3, Tahlequah, Okla., died Oct. 23, 1995, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla. She was born April 24, 1942, at Fair Oaks, Ark., the daughter of Orvil Leonard and Mary Francis Hildebrand Young. She was office manager for H & R Block and a Baptist. She was preceded in death by her mother and one son, Forrest Cread "Tiger" Stansell III, on Feb. 11, 1988.
Survivors include her husband, Forrest C. Stansell Jr. of the home; two sons and daughters-in-law, Ricky Lynn and Julie Ritchie of Combs and Shelby Fay and Melanie Stansell of Tahlequah, Okla.; her father and stepmother, Leonard and Goldie Young of Elkins; her stepfather, Martin Warren of Hickor Ridge; three brothers, Norman Young and Ervin Young, both of Elkins and Eugene Warren of Heber Springs; six sisters, Mrs. Reba Smith of Springdale, Mrs. Linda Moore, Mrs. Janice McGowan, Mrs. Joyce Stockton, and Mrs. Loyce Smith, all of Elkins, and Mrs. Brenda Morgan of St. Paul; her father-in-law and mother-in-law, Cread and Pauline Stansell of Hindsville; and one granddaughter, Miss Madyson Stansell of Tahlequah, Okla.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in the chapel of Brashears Funeral Home with the Rev. Rufus Young and the Rev. Mickey Merrick officiating. Interment will be in the Huntsville Cemetery under the direction of Brashears Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be nephews.
Contributed on 11/17/09 by eagle12953
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