Barbara Delores Bell

Barbara D. Bell was born to the late James and Viola Brunt. She was the third of six children. On April 15, 1959 she united in holy matrimony with Richard Bell, Barbara departed this life May 9, 2020 at the Northeast Methodist Hospital at 7:21 a.m. She professed her life to Christ at an early age at Antioch Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas where she received many awards for memorizing and reciting all the verses of the Bible, while trying to live by all those verses, during her lifetime. She was a member of the Order Of Eastern Stars, Kansas District. Upon moving to Tacoma, Washington she became a faithful member of the Bethlehem Baptist Church where she sang in the Women’s Choir, and served as a Deaconess until her health failed.

Barbara was preceded in death by her husband Richard Bell, mother and father James and Viola Brunt, sister Courtney Young and brother James Brunt.

She leaves to cherish her fond memories, her daughter Mary Head Bethel, Son-In-Law Hayward Bethel, four sisters Betty Mann, Fort Lauderdale, Fl. Norma Broomfield, Clarence, Chicago, Il. Donna Crenshaw of Mesa, Az. and Sister-In Law Barbara Brunt, Houston, Tx. Two Grandsons Anthony and Tyrone Bethel, Austin, Tx. One Granddaughter Lisa Ragland, Zion, Il. Three Great Grands Tanisha Kertzman, Tyrone Bethel, Jr and Gwendolyn Bethel. Five Great Great Grands Payton and Jaelyn Kertzman, Marley Bethel, Deshawn Bethel, and Genesis Bethel and a host of Great grand children, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Tribute to My Mother (Love Your Daughter Mary)

When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure MOM.

Mother loved Christmas and to decorate. She would decorate the tree every year with angel hair. The light would shine through so beautiful. What I never told her is that darn angel hair made me itch so bad like the dickens.

Mother also loved to shop!!! One day, it was very cold weather and a long line at the department store to get inside, Mother could not miss any Sale, so she threw up her hands and faked a fainting spell to get inside. The department store folks quickly rushed to her aid and ushered her inside, to everyone’s surprise Mother was healed. Amen!!! And the shopping was on.

After lovingly taking care of you from a stroke you suffered, I also became down in my back, so the two of us walked around like twins on canes. Mother like Daughter.

God in his infinite wisdom chose to take you home to be with Him. Thank you, Dear Mother, for all the love you showed me, although you left this Earth and now you’ve taken flight, I know that you are here with me each morning, noon, and night.

Your Loving Daughter,

Mary