Obituary - Anna Bell (Bates) Harper
Amarillo Globe-News, June 15, 2002
Anna Bell Harper
SHAMROCK - Anna Bell Harper, 98, died Thursday, June 13, 2002.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Samnorwood Baptist Church with the
Rev. Dean Driver, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Shamrock Cemetery
by Wright Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Harper was born June 17, 1903, in Lone Wolf, Okla., to the Rev. R.P.
and Sarah Isabell Bates. She was a resident of Oklahoma City for more than
40 years before moving to Shamrock in 1976.
She was a member of the Samnorwood Baptist Church, the Order of the Eastern
Star and the Rebekah Lodge.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence Harper; two daughters;
two sons; her parents; seven brothers; a sister; and a grandson.
Survivors include two sons, Joe Lenderman and wife, Emy, of Samnorwood and
Richard Harper and wife, Sylvia, of Choctaw, Okla.; two daughters, Bobbie
Snead and husband, J.C., of Samnorwood and LaVelle Morgan and husband, Fred,
of Pottsboro; 13 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren and
great-great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Samnorwood Baptist Church.