Published: November 01, 2009 10:00 pm         

Alice Rose Wells

Published 11-2-09

Enid, OK — Funeral services for Alice Rose Wells, 83 years, will be 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Enid with Pastor Kenneth Wade officiating with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home in charge. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery.

She was born March 10, 1926, at Fairmont, Okla., to Edward A. and Rosa N. Ditgen Lang and died Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009, while still living on the farm where she was born.

She graduated from Pioneer High School in 1943 and was employed with Southwestern Bell until her marriage to Roy L. Wells, Dec. 24, 1945, in Enid. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in December 1995.

She was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and Valley View Home Demonstration Club and served as Garfield County secretary in 1966-1967. She worked as a professional seamstress for 10 years, sewing for family all of her life. She worked and retired from Hackney, Inc. in 1989 after 20 years of service.

She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and homemaker.

Surviving are one son, Warren Wells and his wife, Karen, of Yukon, Okla.; three beloved grandchildren, Alicia Lowery and her husband, Craig, Darren Wells and his wife, Mandra, and their unborn child, and Ryan Robert Wells; two great-grandsons, Logan and Landon Lowery; her brother, Edward Lang of Hastings, Minn.; and special friend, Martin Burgess.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Roy, on Oct. 1, 2004, and brother, John Jacob.

Memorials may be made to Fairmont Collett Cemetery Care Fund with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home as custodian of the funds.

Condolences may be emailed to the family at ladusauevans@suddenlink mail.com.

(Paid Obit 11-2-1)