Hazel A. Bond

Marietta Monitor

July 7, 2000, page 4

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Hazel A. Bond, 87, of Marietta, were held at 2 p.m., Thursday, July 6, in Marietta's First Baptist Church with the Rev. Tommy Higle officiating.

Mrs. Bond was born March 29, 1913, at Addington Bend, the daughter of Mac and Lola Mae Moore Shurbet. She died July 4, 2000 at Mercy Health Love County in Marietta.

She had been a resident of Love County all of her life. She and Olen Bond were married November 23, 1930, in Marietta, and they had made their home in Loves Valley for 61 years.

Mrs. Bond had been a member of Marietta's First Baptist Church for 57 years and for many years cooked for the children of the church at Falls Creek. Her hobbies included canning garden vegetables, sewing and quilting a hand-pieced quilt for each grandchild.

Survivors include her husband, Olen Bond of the home; three daughters and son- in-law, Billie Mac Presley of Marietta, Virginia and Charles Leeper of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Wanda Young of Aledo, Texas; one sister, Noble Bond of Marietta; 11 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Bond was preceded in death by five brothers and two half-sisters.

Serving as pallbearers were grandsons, Dennis Presley, Royce Young, Gary Presley, Rick Young, Billy Charles Young and Keith Leeper. Honorary pallbearers were great-grandsons and Fidelis Sunday School Class of First Baptist Church.

Interment was in the Lakeview Cemetery under the direction of Kennedy Funeral Home.

The family has requested that memorials be made to the American Heart Association.