RALLS (Special) - Services for Annie Florence Shell, 89, of Ralls, a former "Ralls Outstanding Senior Citizen" and West Texas pioneer, will be at 4 p.m. today at Ralls First Baptist Church. The Rev. Floyd Haddock, pastor of Seagraves First Baptist Church will officiate.Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.
Mrs. Shell died at 2 p.m. Tuesday at High Plains Nursing Home in Lubbock.
She was born in 1892 in Fannin County and moved to Crosby County in 1899. After living briefly in North Carolina, she returned to West Texas, where she married Fred J. Shell March 14, 1915, in a buggy in the canyon between Floydada and Ralls. He died in 1947.
She and her mother-in-law, Adnah Shell, were the original "Welcome Wagon" in Ralls. They visited and welcomed all newcomers until the town's rapid growth made the job impossible for the two of them.
Mrs. Shell was a charter member of the Eastern Star chapter, a member of the first Study Club organized in Ralls, and a charter member of the PTA. She was a member of First Baptist Church for 63 years and was active in helping build and finance three church buildings. She also participated in the church census and was a member of the choir. She has donated time and money to radio ministry and foreign missions.
Mrs. Shell also was a member of the JOY Club in Ralls for the past 13 years and was a volunteer for the Telephone Reassurance Council.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Harold Priddy of Ralls, Mrs. Arnold Chauncey of Lubbock and Mrs. H.R. Miller of Denson; a brother, Bert Heafner of Inglewood, Calif.; seven grandchildren; five great grandchildren; and a great great grandchild.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, October 22, 1981
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox HughesAdditional Information
Annie Florence Heafner was born on September 21, 1892, in Fannin County, Texas. She died on October 20, 1981, in Ralls, Texas, at the age of 89, and was buried there. When Fred J Shell was born on July 20, 1884, in Coryell County, Texas, his father, William Henry Shell, was 32 and his mother, Adnah iddling, was 28. He had five brothers and one sister. He died on July 13, 1947, in Lubbock County, Texas, at the age of 62, and was buried in Ralls, Texas.
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