Myrna Ruth Bell

You may come by the funeral home starting on Thursday, December 5, 2013 and sign her guest book.

Myrna was born in Texarkana, Texas on May 4, 1938. She is the second of two siblings born to H.E. and Ruth Brooks. She grew up in Texarkana and later attended the University of Texas in Austin. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with a certificate for secondary education. Her teaching career began in Fabens, Texas where she taught English. That summer she was in Austin to begin her Masters Degree when Mr. Mize met with her and after a very pleasant conversation she agreed to come to Perryton where she spent the next twenty six years teaching.

She met Leon Bell in the fall of 1960 at a teachers party. They were married the next year on December 27, 1961. From this union came a son, Alan Brooks Bell and a daughter Susan Bryan Bell.

She is survived by her husband of fifty two years, Leon Alan Bell, of Balko, Oklahoma; her son Alan Brooks Bell and his wife Brenda of Edmond, Oklahoma; a daughter, Susan Bryan Rauch and her husband Peter C. Rauch of Austin, Texas; and her brother Dr. William Bryan Brooks and his wife Ann of Arlington, Texas.

She is also survived by her grandchildren: Brady G. Bell of Balko, Oklahoma; Samantha C. Rauch of Austin, Texas; Allison E. Rauch of Austin, Texas; Nathan Earnest of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Nicki Dayton of Edmond, Oklahoma; and two great grandchildren, Paige Dayton of Edmond, Oklahoma and Kenzi Dayton of Edmond, Oklahoma.