Jean Wells

Norma Jean Wells was born October 2, 1927 near Cleburne, Texas, the fifth of eight children born to Guy and Lillian Hutson. As a young girl, her family moved to Cotton County, Oklahoma near Devol where they raised wheat, cotton, and cattle. She graduated from Devol High School and moved to Edmond, Oklahoma to attend Central State Teacher’s College, and married the love of her life, Chauncey Leon Wells on September 4, 1948. Jean followed Chauncey along the Oklahoma Division railroad line to almost every station between Purcell, Oklahoma and to Newton, Kansas. Mike, was born in 1949 and Steven in 1954, when they settled in Perkins, Oklahoma for what they thought would be their life long residence. The Cimarron flood of 1957 closed the railroad station so they settled back in Edmond. After several “office girl” positions in Oklahoma City businesses, Jean hired with Carey Lumber Company and worked her way up to bookkeeper and eventually comptroller, managing the company’s financial affairs in Texas and Oklahoma. She retired to Buncombe Creek on Lake Texhoma in 1982. Soon, she and Chauncey began spending summers on Buncome Creek and winters in Bullhead City, Arizona. She gardened, cooked, played the slots, fished, played bingo, and followed her beloved Oklahoma Sooners with high passion. She loved her family and always enjoyed the yearly reunion at Possum Kingdom Lake in Texas. Her friends and neighbors said she was the nicest, most loyal, and most giving person they ever met, and her family loved her deeply. She scolded them to behave and caused them to laugh, often at the same time. Jean is preceded in death by her dearest husband, Chauncey; her mother and father, Lillian Luck Hutson and Guy Hutson; her brothers, Weldon, Harold, and Raymond Hutson and their spouses Jo, Virginia, and Luella; her sisters Marie Moran, Jerry Glover and Joyce Bryan and their spouses Charles, J.R. and Jimmy; her brother-in-law, Jim Spiller; and her “hero”, grandson Benjamin. Those who remain are her sister, Mary of Jacksboro, Texas; son, Mike and spouse Starlynn of Pilot Point, Texas; her son Steven and spouse Ginger of Oklahoma City; her dear grandchildren, Lori, Darcy, Amy, Bailey, Travis, Levi, Hannah, and Callie; and great-grandchildren Madison, Ethan, Parker, Lily, Audrey, and Miles, as well as many nieces and nephews.