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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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4
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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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4
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Annabel
and
Rose
Marie
San
Antonio
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1941
Annabel in San
Antonio
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4
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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."