Shirley Diane Bell

Shirley Diane Bell, 79, of Port Orchard, Washington died on February 22, 2016.
Daughter of Ida Bernice Eagleton and Jack West was born on March 5, 1936 in Phoenix, Arizona.

She married Richard W. Bell and raised four (4) children;
Danny Harold Bell married to Ilona,
Timothy Richard Bell engaged to Kim Blue,
Robin Ann Cummins married to John
Erin Teresa Bozon married to Matt

She was so proud of her beautiful eleven (11) grandchildren;
Jessica Bell Ewing, Kathryn Bell (Dan’s)
Cory Bell, Tyler Bell, Dylan Bell, Shannon Bell, Timothy Bell Jr. (Tim’s)
James Ketchum, Cassandra Cummins (Robin’s)
Brin Bozon, Luke Bozon (Erin’s)

She was so thankful to be able to get to know or hear about her wonderful seven (7) great grandchildren;
Lucy & Charlotte Ewing (Jessica’s)
Bethany Bell (Dylan)
Karilyn & Maci Ketchum (James’s)
Adina & Isaac (Tyler’s) Step Greats!

Shirley moved to San Pedro, California so that our father could finish his education. While living there she worked two jobs to support their family. This is where her love for remodeling homes started. She took a cookie cutter home and customized it. This was also where our family’s love for horses began.

Wanting more property we all moved to Rolling Hills Estates where they could raise their children in this beautiful neighborhood. Our Mom continued improving the homes we lived in by taking an old home and remodeled it. Two of our best neighbors from San Pedro followed our family to the same street! This was when she discovered she was pregnant after 9 years from her last child with Erin. She was so happy and blessed when she found out she was pregnant again and even happier when she had another girl! During this time her boy’s were involved in football, basketball, baseball and cars, while continuing to travel the United States with her first daughter and her horses. She ran them all around to every event they wanted to attend.

After many years in Rolling Hills we had decided to move to beautiful home in Thousand Oaks, California and of course she continued her remodeling talents. She took crowbars to old cabinets herself, and learned how to wall paper many rooms. She even sewed thousand of little round puffs for a mail order business to earn enough money to surprise her husband with their first cruise.

Finally it was time to down size now that her boys and first daughter were married, so they decided to move onto a private island in Westlake Village, California. This is when she decided to divorce her husband, but continued to share the raising of her youngest daughter with him. These were very hard times for our family, but she knew she had to make this decision.

She then moved to her own home in Moorpark, California for a couple of years. Finally after visiting her daughter in Washington State she decided to move to the beautiful Northwest. She had always wanted to live in a log home amongst the beautiful trees. This is where she lived for 22 years during her retirement.

She loved remodeling homes, upholstering furniture, sewing, gardening, bowling and cooking. Towards the end of her life she began wanting to stay home and watch her court related shows like “Judge Judy”.

Her family will honor and celebrate her life March 4, 2016 at 11:00 am for a graveside ceremony at Sunset Lane Memorial Park, 1000 Bethel Road, Port Orchard, WA 98366, then the family invites everyone to continue celebrating at Puerto Vallarta Mexican Restaurant.