Sedgwick-Garfield County KS Archives Obituaries.....West, Dona Bell (Isbell) January 1, 2005 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Oz . lostinoz@embarqmail.com August 16, 2007, 1:16 am Unknown Newspaper Dona Bell (Isbell) West b. 12-2-1928 Enid OK Garfield co d. 1-1-2005 Wichita Memorial Park Cemetery Kansas City MO Jackson co The youngest child of Everett Clifford Isbell and Gertrude Mae Siebenthaler Isbell. Following graduation from Enid High School in 1946, Dona moved to Wichita to attend Wichita University. While attending college, she also worked at the old University Airport, where she met Robert Wesley Webber. They married in 1947 and made their home in Wichita, where they raised their two children. During that time, Dona worked for the Moberly, West and Jennings CPA firm, starting as a secretary and advancing to office manager. Divorced in 1968, she moved to Boulder, CO, where she and a sister established radio station KADE. While living there, she also attended the University of Colorado. In 1970, Dona returned to Wichita and married Ivan McCullough West on Oct. 2, of that year. They made their home there, and she worked with her husband in an investment business. Together, they traveled extensively, visiting Jamaica, Panama, Greece, Russia, Scotland, England and a number of other countries. They enjoyed socializing with a wide circle of friends until health problems began to limit Dona's activities. Eventually, that circle narrowed to family members and a few very close friends. Preceding her in death were her parents, sister and business partner, Enid Pepperd and step-daughter, Rebecca West Norris. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/sedgwick/obits/w/west1546ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb