Extracted from The Birmingham News (Birmingham, AL)
Tuesday, March 15, 1949

IVIE -- Mrs. Bell Cates Ivie, age 69, of 3600 24th St., N., passed away at the residence Tuesday a.m.

Survived by 2 sons, D. W. Cates, B'ham; Robert Ivie; 4 daughters, Mrs. C. V. Stellman, Mrs. H. G. Eady, both of B'ham; Mrs. W. I. Huff, Tuscaloosa; Mrs. R. T. Thrasher, Centerville, Ala.; Mrs. Aubrey Lowery, West Blocton; Mrs. D. S. Morrison, Woodstock, Ala.; 20 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services from Brown-Service Chapel Wednesday 1:30 a.m. and from Schultg [sic Schultz] Creek Baptist Church 2 p.m., Rev. W. M. Harris and Rev. James Harris officiating.

Interment Schultg [sic Schultz] Creek Cemetery.

Grandsons will act as pallbearers.

Brown-Service directing.
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Note: Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Thrasher were Belle's sisters, not her daughters.