Wanda Merlene Fincher Cox Bell was born to Charlie Wright and Emma Sarah (Hunnicutt) Fincher on November 20, 1922 in Girard, Texas. She was the eighth child and third daughter of 10 children. She is preceded in death by her parents; all of her siblings, Amos, Warren, Joe, Don, Gerald, C.W., Gussie Dean, Bonnie Simpson and Evelyn Murdoch; two husbands, Marshall Cox and R.J. Bell; and her daughter-in-law, Janet Parrish Cox.
