NELLIE FENNELL

ADA-Services for Nellie Bee Fennell, 87, Ada are 10:00 a.m. Tuesday at the Fitzhugh Baptist Church. Rev. Steve Wilburn will officiate. Burial will follow at East Hill Cemetery in Roff. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Monday at Criswell Funeral Home.

Mrs. Fennell died Sunday, January 24, 2010 at a local hospital. She was born September 4, 1922 at Lindsay, Oklahoma to Larey Jake and Mittie Doretta Slawson Hinley. She lived in the Fitzhugh area most of her life.

She married Marshall Thomas Fennell on September 16, 1943. He preceded her in death on June 10, 2008 in Ada. Mrs. Fennell was a homemaker, a member of the Fitzhugh Baptist Church and a member of the church choir. She was an avid collector of porcelain dolls.

Survivors include two sons, Allen Wayne Fennell, Ada, and Marshall Fennell, Chickasha; two daughters, Linda Grant and husband Gary, Ada, and Rita Thompson and husband Rex, Duncan; six grandchildren, Michael Shanon Wallace, Erik Roger Grant and wife Tyrra, Abby Lynn Grant, Amber Lea Grant, Zachary Thomas Fennell and wife Monica, and April Dawn Hague and husband Branch; ten great granchildren; and two special friends, Brenda Fennell, Duncan and Sherry Sutton, Ada.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one brother and one sister.

Bearers will be Michael Wallace, Erik Grant, Zachary Fennell, Branch Hague, Clayton Fennell and Tyler Fennell.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada