Dena Mae Johnston Bell

Transcript of headstone located at Bell Cemetery, Anderson County, Texas

Clarence T. "Doc" Bell
Sept. 25, 1900
June 2, 1972

Dena M. Bell
Feb. 25, 1908
July 15, 1981

Dena Mae Johnston was born in Anderson County, Texas to Baxter Johnston and Cynthia Jane Kiser Johnston. Her parents are buried in Fort Houston Cemetery. She shares a stone with her husband, Clarence Travis “Doc” Bell, who she married on 2 June 1927 in Anderson County. She died in Anderson County and was survived by one son, Clarence Travis “Pinkey” Bell Jr. of Frankston; one brother, Sims Johnston of Palestine; three sisters, Mrs. Wade (Annie) Butler, Mrs. Curley Warren and Mrs. Hollie Warren, all of Palestine; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Her obituary appeared in the Palestine Herald-Press, Thursday, 16 July 1981.