Adie Delia Watkins Bell, 77, homemaker, died of cardiac arrest Saturday at Methodist Hospital in Memphis. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Halls Funeral Home with burial in Green Hill Memorial Garden. She was a Baptist.

Mrs. Bell, the widow of James Bell, leaves a daughter, Carolyn Kilzer of Halls; two sons, Ernest Bell of Covington and Billy Bell of Unionville; a sister, Clydie Warpole of Halls; two brothers, Harvey Watkins of Steele, Mo., and Franklin Watkins of Halls, 13 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.

The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), August 25, 1997