Alice Beth Colwell

Alice Beth (Baker) Colwell, 91, of Austin died July 12, 2003, Austin, Texas. Services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Monday, July 14th, at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home conducted by the Rev. Joe Turner of New Braunfels, former minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Pampa, Texas. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Pampa, Texas, at 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 15th. Alice Beth was born August 16, 1911 in Honey Grove Texas to William Robert and Elizabeth Ann (Thompson) Baker. Upon the death of her father in December 1922, Alice Beth and her mother moved to Amarillo, Texas where her older brothers, Willard and Billie and sister Lucybel resided. Alice Beth participated in the Pep Squad at Amarillo High School and graduated in 1929. She worked as a clerk and did some modeling at White & Kirk Department store at 6th and Polk in Amarillo. She married Weldon Brent " Collie" Colwell August 7, 1932 at her mother's home on Fairmont Street in Amarillo. In 1945 the family moved to Pampa, Texas where her husband established a tax practice. At the Presbyterian Church in Pampa she taught primary Sunday School Classes, assisted with the handicapped children's classes at the church until those children were mainstreamed into the public schools and later taught the Women's Bible Class. She enjoy the church suppers and the Young at Heart group. She moved to Austin in 1999 to live near her daughter and family. She enjoyed her grandchildren and worked puzzles, played board games, soft ball and kick ball with them well into her 80's. She was a good cook and the grandchildren most often requested her chicken and dumplings for supper.She was preceded in death by her husband, Weldon Brent (Collie) Colwell: her son, Walter Colwell: three brothers, Sidney, Billie and Willard Baker and one sister Lucybel Dinwiddie.She is survived by her daughter Betty Peeples and husband Melvin of Austin, four grandsons. Robert "Bob" Peeples and wife Karen of Austin, Alan Peeples and wife Reynalda of Austin, Mark Peeples and wife Susan of Alice, Texas: Brent Colwell and wife, Carol of Belton, and one granddaughter, Anne Clemons and husband Ron of Belton; nine great-grand children: three great-great grandchildren. Arrangements by Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home, 3125 N. Lamar Blvd., Austin, Texas 78705 (512) 452-8811. You may view memorials at www.wcfish.com