Anna Bell Estes

© Bartlesville Examiner
August 13 to September 12, 2012
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Anna Bell Estes, 85, passed away Thursday, August 9, 2012 at her home in Dewey.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M. Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at the Rose Hill Community Baptist Church in Dewey with Pastor Orville Moody and Pastor Jim Anderson officiating. Interment will follow in the Dewey Cemetery under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory.

Family will be receiving friends on Monday evening from 6-7 P.M. at the Stumpff Funeral Home.

The daughter of Commadore Dewey and Elsie Mildred (Mardis) Moody, Anna was born March 7, 1927 in Henryetta, Oklahoma. She received her education in Bartlesville and had lived in this area most of her life. Anna retired from Reda Pump in 1980 to continue to care for her family. She had the capability of making friends anywhere she went, never meeting a stranger. Anna enjoyed working in her yard, garden and flower beds, bird watching, talking about old times, going out to eat, shopping for antique furniture and playing bingo.

She is survived by her children, Judy Rickman of Bartlesville, Gary Friend and his wife, Mary, of Dewey, Lisa Smith of Bartlesville, Bo Estes of Dewey, Terry Wills of Bartlesville, Frances Sanders and her husband, Ron, of Dewey and Pat Bryan of Bartlesville; four sisters, Joan Keen, Carol Packard, Patty Ann Holt and Lois Reynolds; three brothers, Bobby Moody, Jim Moody and C.D. Moody; twenty-three grandchildren; forty great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild and numerous nieces and nephews.

Anna was preceded in death by her parents; her beloved husbands, W.D. Friend and Burl Oscar Estes; three sons, William T. "Tommy" Friend, Jimmie Burl Estes and Kenneth E. "Bud" Estes; four sisters, Maxine Snyder, Della Blair, Rose Lee Moody and Sharon Moody; two brothers, Carl Dean Moody and Edward Moody.