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Annabel

1915 - 2002

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ANNABEL DELENA NELSON

Father: (WILLIAM LEE2, ROBERT LEE1)

Mother: (ALMA LOVINA7 LONG, (MOSES6, NICHOLAS G.5, ALLEN4, WILLIAM OTHO3, NICHOLAS2, LUKE1

Born July 24, 1915. She married BRUCE FOSTER SHATTUCK October 17, 1941 in San Antonio, TX, son of SIMEON SHATTUCK and ROSE MARIE BRUCE.

Died December 6, 2002 in Bartlesville, OK.

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1915

Annabel at 3 Months.

Bartlesville, OK

Made at the Drum

Studio

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1918

Annabel at 3

Southwest of Dewey

on an oil lease

where Bill worked as

a pumper. Lived

there in 1918 and

again in 1927.

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1919

Annabel at 4 years

Bartlesville, OK

Studio Portrait

Photographer

played catch with

Annabel to get her

happy and not

afraid for picture.

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1919

Annabel at 4

On side of the hill,now Beck Dr. inBartlesville

―Wanted mama (Alma) to fix fried chicken and she told me to go catch a chicken.‖

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Card from Sarah Frances

McNett Nelson to

granddaughter Annabel

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1925

Annabel Nelson, Age 10

Bartlesville, Ok Studio Portrait

Bill was still working as foreman for National Oil and Development Company. This was also his first year farming, his dream.

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1925

Annabel DelenaNelson, Age 10. Bartlesville, OK

Studio Portrait

Wearing red hat Alma Long Nelson (mother) made her by covering a hat form with red braid..

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1925

Annabel

10 years

Studio in

B’ville

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1929 –Mission Creek SchoolOne-room schoolhouse northwest of Dewey, OK. Attended last semester of 8th grade.

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1930

Annabel

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1931

Annabel – 15

yrs.

Taken at a

little 10 cent

walk-in

studio on 3rd

Street,

Bartlesville,

OK.

14Annabel’s Graduating Class 1933

Largest class to graduate (44) up to 1933.Taken in front of Dewey, OK Grade School

High School directly behind Grade School connected with a covered hallway

15Dewey’s largest graduating class so far!

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1933

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1936

Age 21

Living in Bartlesville.

First employment at

CC Jackson

Abstract Co.

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1936

Annabel, 21 years of

age.

―Mama cried when she

opened the box at

Mother’s Day dinner at

Oletha’s.

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1936

Previous

photo,

colored

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1938

Friends

Forever Mildred

Headley

Annabel

Taken in Johnstone Park, Bartlesville on a Sunday afternoon

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1938

Annabel

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1938

Annabel

Buck (Bill) called this Annabel’s Sew Sew coat because Mama (Alma) had difficulty getting buttons sewn on correctly

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1939

Annabel

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1939

Bartlesville, OK

―A girlfriend, Mildred, and I saw a girl wearing an outfit like this and she drew a picture of it and Mama (Alma) cut a newspaper pattern and duplicated it.‖

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1939 Mildred and Annabel

Taken in Tulsa, OK at

Mildred’s sister’s home

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1939

Iva Mae [friend]

Annabel

Iva Mae and Annabel were close friends since the age of 10. They married the same fall (1941) and are still close friends in 2000 at the age of 85.

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1939

Annabel

Iva Mae [friends

since grade

school]

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1939

24 years old

Johnstone Park

Bartlesville, OK

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1940

Mildred and

Annabel

25 years old

Johnstone Park

Bartlesville, OK

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1940 Taken outside

Central Junior High

School

Bartlesville, OK

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1940

Annabel

Age 25

Picture was taken

beside Kale Khorey’s

Buick. He was an oil

man in Oklahoma

City—Kohrey Oil

Company. Did

seismograph work.

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1940

Annabel

Taken at Exhibit

Building, Johnstone

Park, Bartlesville,

OK

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1941

Annabel

One of a series of pictures

taken to send to Bruce in

San Antonio

Bartlesville, OK

Johnstone Park

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1941

Annabel - early spring

One of a series of

pictures taken to send

Bruce before his furlough

visit in 1941 after not

having seen him for 5

years. They had kept in

touch by letters.

Taken by Cherokee

Bridge in Bartlesville, OK

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By the Art Museum in

Johnstone Park,

Bartlesville, OK.

Cherokee Bridge

Bartlesville, OK

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Annabel

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1941

Annabel

Shortly after

marriage San

Antonio, TX

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1941

October

26 years &

3 months

Taken at a studio

in San Antonio, 3

weeks after

marriage to Bruce

Shattuck

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1941

Picture in

newspaper

announcing

marriage.

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1941

Annabel at the

Japanese Tea

Garden in San

Antonio, Texas.

[Name changed

to Chinese Tea

Garden after

Pearl Harbor

was bombed

12/7/41.]

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Annabel

and

Rose

Marie

San

Antonio

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1941

Annabel in San

Antonio

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Breckenridge Park, San

Antonio, TX

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1942

Annabel at

Randolph Field,

San Antonio, TX

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1943

Annabel

Taken by Crystal Ice Plant103 N. Keeler, Bartlesville, OK

Sent to Bruce at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin

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1943

Annabel

Margaret

Squire

Taken

4/3/43

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1950

Annabel’s

Bible

presented by

Dr. Graves

April 1950

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1950

Annabel’s 35th birthday,

July 24, 1950.

Bruce F. baked her a

cake!

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1969

Annabel

Taken in Bill and

Nell Caudle’s

peach orchard in

Grand Prairie,

Texas.

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1969

Annabel at 54 in

her back yard by

the Paul Scarlet

Roses (planted in

1947, still

blooming in

2004).

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1970

Annabel

Johnstone Park,

Bartlesville, OK

Age 55

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1972

Botanical Garden in Jackson, Mississippi

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Annabel

Passport

Picture

For first trip

to Israel.

[Taken at

AAA Travel

in

Bartlesville]

1972

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1973

Annabel

(wearing earrings she bought in Jerusalem earlier in the year.

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Annabel

Egypt, Nov. 1973

57Swimmers, 1976

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1981 -

Hawaii

Minnie Jack Annabel

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1981

Annabel

Minnie

Hawaii

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1981

Annabel

Taken at

First Baptist

Church for

Directory

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1981

Annabel on Fall

Foliage bus tour.

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1982

At Frank Phillips

Museum, SW of

Bartlesville, OK

Age 67

Wearing leather

poncho Bruce bought

her in Tijuana, Mexico

in 1976

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1982

At Frank Phillips Ranch

southwest of Bartlesville, OK.

Age 67

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1987

Melissa and Annabel riding the elephant at RenaissanceFestival south of DenverJuly 1987.

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May 1988

Motorcycle Mama [Annabel, age 72]

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1990

Annabel, age 75

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August 1992

Annabel, 77 years

Katy Pennell (great

granddaughter)

1 year old

Denver, CO

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Egypt

12/30/96

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1996Christmas

Sandra

Shattuck Lee

Annabel

Nelson

Shattuck

At Sandra’s

home in

Bartlesville,

OK

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Feb. 1997

Annabel

Bartlesville, OK

81 years 7 mos.

This was taken for the Church directory a few days after a 4 week hospital stay

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1997

Annabel and great granddaughter

Katy Pennell

Taken at grandmother’s house (Sandra Lee)

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2000

Annabel’s 85th

birthday was

celebrated at her

daughter Linda’s

home in Houston, TX. Granddaughter

Meredith and hubby Keith presented

Annabel with her first bouquet of roses.

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2000

Charles Lee, Jr.

Charles Lee

Bruce Lee

Shattuck

Annabel

Shattuck

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2000

Sandra

Shattuck Lee

Charles Lee,

Jr.

Bruce Lee

Shattuck

Annabel

Shattuck

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Christmas 2000

Charles Lee

Sandra Shattuck Lee

Carol Nixon

Linda Shattuck Nixon

Greg NixonKeith Turner

Meredith Nixon Turner

Bruce Lee ShattuckAnnabel Nelson Shattuck

Melissa Lee Pennell

Katy Pennell

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Christmas 2000 at home,

Bartlesville, OK

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Christmas

Dinner 2000

at the home

of Sandra

Shattuck Lee

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Annabel and Helen

September 2, 2002 Long-time friends.

Helen Hamby was living at Green Country Independent Living, next door to Annabel’s Assisted Living, but after several strokes she moved to a nursing home in Pawhuska to be closer to her son. Charlie and Sandy took Annabel over to Pawhuska for a visit on September 2.

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Biography

Annabel wrote the following biography in

preparation for a trip with Young at Heart

to Big Bend, Texas

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I was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in the same block as I have lived the past 51 years. I grew up

in rural Bartlesville and rural Dewey, graduating from Dewey High School in the early 30’s, the

depression days. Jobs were scarce. After being out of school for a year, I became bored and went

back to Dewey High as a post graduate to brush up on my typing and shorthand.

I took a job in a Bartlesville abstract office in the spring and moved to Bartlesville. Later I attended

Business School and then worked in a combined abstract, real estate and insurance office until I

married in October 1941 and became a soldier’s wife.

Bruce expected to be discharged December 7, 1941, when he would complete his year of required

service at Fort Sam Houston, so I remained in San Antonio. Our plans changed abruptly with the

bombing of Pearl Harbor, so I remained in San Antonio and he came nights and weekends when not

on Guard Duty or maneuvers. This continued until November 1942, when his division was

transferred to Wisconsin and I returned to Bartlesville with our three week old daughter.

While on maneuvers in Canada he got a severe ear infection which led to a radical mastoid

operation with a medical discharge in October 1943. We spent the rest of our lives in Bartlesville

until he died in December 1980.

We had three children--two daughters and one son. They all had their own homes by then. Our two

daughters each gave us a granddaughter and grandson. I now have a five year old great-

granddaughter.

I had three older sisters ranging 8 to 11 years my senior, also a younger brother. They are all now

deceased, including my parents.

I enjoy sightseeing trips with Young At Heart group and Singles III Sunday School group. I also

made several overseas trips, including Israel in 1973, the only trip I have wanted to repeat. I am

looking forward to this trip, which I expect to be my last overseas trip. My most enjoyable physical

and mental exercise is Square Dancing. I also enjoy Bridge and other table games.

Bartlesville has been my address my entire life except the year in San Antonio. My roots are deep

in the ―Heart of Bartlesville."