Rita Mecom Bell was born in Spur in 1913 to J.I. and Cassie Mecom. R.J. and Rita both started to school and graduated from Spur schools. R.J. with the class of 1935 and Rita with the class of 1932. They were married in 1939 and have one daughter. Their children also graduated Spur High School.R.J. and Rita owned and operated Bell´s Cafe in Spur from 1963 to 1969. After closing the cafe, they moved to the Pitchfork Land and Cattle Company headquarters where they managed the cook house and commissary. They later worked for the W.T. Waggoner Estate at Zacaweista Ranch headquarters near Vernon, Texas.
Source: "Dickens County, Its Land and People", Dickens County Historical Commission, ©1986
Services for Rita M. Bell, 78, are scheduled for Wednesday, November 27, 1991 in the First United Methodist Church with Rev. Bruce Parks, Lubbock and Rev. Kenney Kirk, officiating.Rev. Parks is a former Spur United Methodist Church pastor, now retired.
Burial will be in Spur Memorial Cemetery under direction of Campbell Funeral Home.
Mrs. Bell died about 9:20 a.m. November 25, 1991 in the Crosbyton clinic Hospital, following a lengthy illness.
She was born in Spur and had lived in Dickens county most of her life. She married R.J. Bell on July 6, 1939 in Dallas. She was a homemaker; a 1932 graduate of Spur High School and a member of the Methodist church.
For many years she and her husband operated Bell´s Cafe in downtown Spur.
She is survived by her husband; three sons, Hardy Bell, Seymour; duke Bell, Atlanta, Georgia, Roddy Bell, Lubbock; one daughter, Judy Wormuth, Spur; a brother, Hardy Mecom, Kerrville; two sisters, Nell Estes, Rule and Forestine Ripple, Dumas; eight grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren.
©The Texas Spur, November 19, 1991
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
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