Carol Vivian Reeves Bell

Carol Vivian Reeves Bell FLOYDADA - Funeral services for Carol Vivian Reeves Bell, 82, were at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church of Floydada with the Rev. Anthony Sisemore and Mark Hart officiating. Burial was in Floyd County Memorial Park by Moore-Rose Funeral Home of Floydada. Mrs. Bell died Monday, June 1, 2009. She was born May 24, 1927, in Turkey to Sim and Sally Reeves. She attended school in the South Plains community and graduated from Floydada High School in 1944. She received an associate's degree from Wayland College in 1946 and a bachelor's degree from Hardin-Simmons University in 1948. She graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with a master's degree in religious education in 1950. She received her master's in library science from West Texas State University in 1978. She taught at Buckner's Children's Home in Dallas and Brownfield, and at Second Baptist Church in Lubbock. She also taught in the Floydada school system and retired as the Floydada High School librarian in 1984. She married Ted Bell on June 2, 1956. He died Oct. 28, 1978. Survivors include a son, Rex Bell of Fort Worth; a daughter, Shannon Bell Hart of Boerne; a stepson, Dr. Hal Reese of Decatur; a stepdaughter, Sheryl Reeves of Santa Fe, N.M.; three brothers, John Reeves of Dallas, Raymond Reeves of Memphis, Texas, and Robert Reeves of South Plains; a daughter-in-law, Cheryl Bell of Fort Worth; a son-in-law, Mark Hart of Boerne; a stepdaughter-in-law, Lori Reese of Decatur; and seven grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to the Ted and Carol Bell Art Scholarship at Wayland Baptist University, 1900 W. Seventh St., CMB #621, Plainview, TX 79072; or to First Baptist Church, 401 S. Main, Floydada, TX 79235.