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- "Elizabethton Star," Wednesday, August 14, 1940
MRS. IDA SHELL IS DROWNED IN FLOOD WATERS
Was Sitting in Car Parked At Tad's Barbecue When Wall of Water Struck
Mrs. Ida M. Shell, 58, was drowned last night by floodwaters as she sat in an automobile parked at Tad's Barbecue stand in the Rio Vista section.
The automobile in which she was sitting was swept approximately 300 feet away from the parking lot.
It was understood that her husband, Robert T. Shell, her mother, Mrs. Ella Gregg, and a daughter, Miss Ruble Shell, had gone into the establishment, leaving Mrs. Shell in the car.
When the party rushed out of the building after the floodwaters struck, they found the car gone. The body was discovered, still in the car, at about 5:00 o'clock this morning.
Mrs. Shell had apparently been unable to force the doors of the car open due to pressure of the water.
A native of Johnson county, she had made her home in Carter county for a number of years. She was a member of the Christian church.
She is survived by her husband, Robert T. Shell; two daughters, Mrs. Philly Lowe of Covington, Tenn., and Miss Ruble Shell of Elizabethton; her mother, Mrs. Ellen Gregg of Elizabethton; one sister, Mrs. Selma Shoun of Mountain City; one brother, Stanley Gregg of Elizabethton; four grandchildren.
Star," Thursday, August 15, 1940
MRS. IDA M. SHELL
Funeral services for Mrs. Ida M. Shell, wife of Bob Shell, this city, who was drowned while sitting in a car in the Rio Vista section Tuesday night, will be held from the home, 910 East Broad street Friday at 2:30 p.m. Rev. Steve Morton and Rev. J. C. Howington will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Active pallbearers: Carl Hopkins, Murray Folsom, Lewis Heaton, Max Barnes, Fred Hathaway, Jim Buck, Tom Nave, Fred Donnelly.
Flower bearers: Mesdames Carl Hobkins[sic], Frank Percy, John Nave, Murray Folsom, Phoebe Kinney, Fred Lewis, Lena Elswick, Clyde Shoun, Joe Cottrell, Lynn Gregg, Bill Thomas, Jim Oliver, Carrie Bozeman, Irene Cole, Jessie Moore, Jr., Helen Wilcox, Carl Glover, Fred Hardin, Nettie Cybhers, Clarence Chambers; Misses Evelyn Gourley, Florence Gourley, Chic Tramell, Hazel Hagey, Bell Shell, Mary Campbell, Georgie Jenins[sic], Mac Tollett, Eilleen Rogers, Margaret Collins, Mary Lytton, Helen Martineau, Margaret Edens, Margaret Jane Wilcox, Beatrice Williams, Lucille Davis, Francis Stone.
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1882 - 1940 (57 years)
