A resident of Childress for the past 64 years, Mrs. Catherine Bellah died at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday in Zoe's Rest Haven.
Mrs. Bellah had been in ill health for the past three years.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday in Central Christian Church with the pastor, Rev. Curtis Keith, Jr., officiating. Interment will be in Childress Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Fay Eatherly, J.D. Michie, Howard Preston, George Barry, Dick Preston, Joe Mills, Glen Stiner, and Clarence Darter.
Mrs. Bellah was born September 17, 1869, at Prairie Lee in Caldwell County, and was married to Henry Bellah March 25, 1888, at San Saba. The couple came to Childress from Vernon in 1889. Mr. Bellah preceded her in death on December 19, 1947.
Mrs. Bellah was a member of Central Christian Church since 1907, a member of the Woodman's Circle, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Smith of Trinidad, Colo., and Mrs. C.E. Killough of Clarendon; two sons, Ray Bellah of Coos Bay, Ore., and R.C. Bellah of Childress; two sisters, Mrs. J.W. Cochran of Fort Worth and Mrs. Pearl White of Vernon; one brother, H.F. Cunningham of Fort Worth; eight grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; and 28 great great grandchildren.
(Published in The Childress Index (Childress, Texas) - 3 Oct 1963, Thu - Page 1)
Mrs. Bellah had been in ill health for the past three years.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday in Central Christian Church with the pastor, Rev. Curtis Keith, Jr., officiating. Interment will be in Childress Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Fay Eatherly, J.D. Michie, Howard Preston, George Barry, Dick Preston, Joe Mills, Glen Stiner, and Clarence Darter.
Mrs. Bellah was born September 17, 1869, at Prairie Lee in Caldwell County, and was married to Henry Bellah March 25, 1888, at San Saba. The couple came to Childress from Vernon in 1889. Mr. Bellah preceded her in death on December 19, 1947.
Mrs. Bellah was a member of Central Christian Church since 1907, a member of the Woodman's Circle, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Smith of Trinidad, Colo., and Mrs. C.E. Killough of Clarendon; two sons, Ray Bellah of Coos Bay, Ore., and R.C. Bellah of Childress; two sisters, Mrs. J.W. Cochran of Fort Worth and Mrs. Pearl White of Vernon; one brother, H.F. Cunningham of Fort Worth; eight grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; and 28 great great grandchildren.
(Published in The Childress Index (Childress, Texas) - 3 Oct 1963, Thu - Page 1)
A resident of Childress for the past 64 years, Mrs. Catherine Bellah died at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday in Zoe's Rest Haven.
Mrs. Bellah had been in ill health for the past three years.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday in Central Christian Church with the pastor, Rev. Curtis Keith, Jr., officiating. Interment will be in Childress Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Fay Eatherly, J.D. Michie, Howard Preston, George Barry, Dick Preston, Joe Mills, Glen Stiner, and Clarence Darter.
Mrs. Bellah was born September 17, 1869, at Prairie Lee in Caldwell County, and was married to Henry Bellah March 25, 1888, at San Saba. The couple came to Childress from Vernon in 1889. Mr. Bellah preceded her in death on December 19, 1947.
Mrs. Bellah was a member of Central Christian Church since 1907, a member of the Woodman's Circle, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Smith of Trinidad, Colo., and Mrs. C.E. Killough of Clarendon; two sons, Ray Bellah of Coos Bay, Ore., and R.C. Bellah of Childress; two sisters, Mrs. J.W. Cochran of Fort Worth and Mrs. Pearl White of Vernon; one brother, H.F. Cunningham of Fort Worth; eight grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; and 28 great great grandchildren.
(Published in The Childress Index (Childress, Texas) - 3 Oct 1963, Thu - Page 1)
Mrs. Bellah had been in ill health for the past three years.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday in Central Christian Church with the pastor, Rev. Curtis Keith, Jr., officiating. Interment will be in Childress Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Fay Eatherly, J.D. Michie, Howard Preston, George Barry, Dick Preston, Joe Mills, Glen Stiner, and Clarence Darter.
Mrs. Bellah was born September 17, 1869, at Prairie Lee in Caldwell County, and was married to Henry Bellah March 25, 1888, at San Saba. The couple came to Childress from Vernon in 1889. Mr. Bellah preceded her in death on December 19, 1947.
Mrs. Bellah was a member of Central Christian Church since 1907, a member of the Woodman's Circle, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Smith of Trinidad, Colo., and Mrs. C.E. Killough of Clarendon; two sons, Ray Bellah of Coos Bay, Ore., and R.C. Bellah of Childress; two sisters, Mrs. J.W. Cochran of Fort Worth and Mrs. Pearl White of Vernon; one brother, H.F. Cunningham of Fort Worth; eight grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; and 28 great great grandchildren.
(Published in The Childress Index (Childress, Texas) - 3 Oct 1963, Thu - Page 1)
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