Obituary of Wanda Ethyl Everetts

Wanda Ethyl Everetts, age 82 of Beaumont, passed away Friday, July 12, 2013 at Select Specialty Hospital, Harrisburg. Mrs. Everetts was born in Beaumont on August 27, 1930 and was the daughter of the late Heber and Grace Root Belles. Wanda graduated from Beaumont High School in 1949. Being an artistic women, she loved arts and crafts and working with ceramics. She was a foster mother for 75 children. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by brothers, William, Heber, and Bernard Belles; sisters, June Taylor and Vernice Wood; infant son, Leonard M. Everetts. Wanda is survived by sons, Charles E. Everetts of Edwardsville, Randy R. Everetts of Beaumont, and Bradley B. Everetts of Forkston; daughter, Rosalie Fox and her husband Chester of Chambersburg; brother, Harold Belles and his wife Alice of Manassas, VA; sisters, Abigail Wood and her husband Byron of Fort Valley, VA, Ruth Sizemore and her husband David of Beaumont, Grace Barber and her husband Irving of Chambersburg; sisters-in-law, Bonnie Jurista of Tunkhannock, Evelyn Belles of Vestal, NY, and Louise Foltz of Plant City, FL; 10 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 11:00 am from the Curtis L. Swanson Funeral Home, Inc., corners of routes 29 and 118, Pikes Creek, with Pastor John Rengifo of the Chambersburg 7th Day Adventist Church, officiating. Interment will be in the Chapel Lawn Memorial Park, Dallas. Friends may call 7:00 - 9:00 PM on Monday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations to be made to Amazing Facts, PO Box 1058, Roseville, CA 95678.