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- Olney Daily Mail - (Dec/29/2004)
Harry R. Wells, 84, of Olney, answered the Lord's call to come home to heaven at 7:47 p.m. Thursday, December 23, 2004. Mr. Wells was a resident at Burgin Manor in Olney.
Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. today with funeral services following at 1 p.m. at Church of the Nazarene on West Cherry Street in Olney with Reverend Bobby Humphrey officiating.
Burial will be in Noble Prairie Cemetery in Noble.
Mr. Wells was born on February 21, 1920, in Clay County, the son of William A. and Ida (Gregge) Wells. He married Alice Witner on December 25, 1945, in McKees Rock, Penn. She survives.
He was the loving husband of Alice Wells, and to this union was born five children, Thomas, Harry Jr., Cathy, Rena and Regina. He was a World War II Army Air Corps veteran. He was a member of Church of the Nazarene in Olney for 47 years. He was a retired farmer and retired from Prairie Farms after 29 years of service to the company.
Mr. Wells is survived by his wife of 59 years, Alice Wells, of Olney; two sons, Thomas Wells and his wife, Linn, of Olney, and Harry R. Wells Jr. and his wife, Debbie, of Noble; two daughters, Cathy R. Wells, of Chicago, and Rena K. Wagner and special friend, Les Reiter, of Goshen, Ind.; an adopted daughter, Jennifer Wells, of Evansville, Ind.; a sister, Joann Fulk and her husband, Arthur, of Noble; six grandchildren, Shane Wells, Vanessa Wagner, Jessica Wagner, Harry R. Wells III, John Wagner and Amber Wells; and nine great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a daughter, Regina Wells; three brothers, Floyd, Theodore and Edward; and three sisters, Lucille, Grace and Marie.
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