Bobby Jean Elese Ollar Ivers Bello, 74, died at her home July 10.

Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. July 17 at Ben Cast & Son-Wood Funeral Home in Holden, Missouri, with interment following at the Holden Cemetery.

The family will have a private visitation prior to the funeral service Tuesday, July 17.

Bobby Jean Elese Ollar Ivers Bello, known to her family as Bobbie Jean or grandma, mom, and to many friends as Elese, was born Oct. 24, 1932, to Virgil L. Ollar and Anna Grace Melchior Ollar at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas.

Bobbie Jean Elese was a resident of the Kingsville area in Johnson County, Missouri, for over 20 years where she lived with her daughter, Connie Jean Ivers Plemons; her husband Daniel Plemons; and their family.

Bobbie Jean Elese was a very accomplished artist. She loved gardening in her yard. She treasured her beautiful flowers and fruit trees. She was married at the age of 16 and began her family. She went back to school and got a job after 32 years of marriage.

She was an accountant for Hertz Rental Car in Dallas,Texas, before moving herself and her mother to Arizona to be near her sisters: Joyce Yvone Ollar Murphy and Anna Louise Ollar Reed.

Later, she moved again driving her truck with her handicapped mother to Kingsville, Missouri, to be with her daughter and family. She also has one sister in Texas: Virginia (Ginger) L. Ollar Ackers.

Bobbie Jean Elese loved people, and was involved in many church and community activities. She was a member of the Relief Society and the children’s primary organization as a teacher. She attended the ward in Odessa, Missouri, at her passing.

Bobbie Jean Elese leaves four children; daughter, Connie Jean Ivers Plemons of the home; son, John Richard Ivers Jr., of Helena, Montana; daughter, Rochelle Elese Ivers Holmquist of Idaho Falls, Idaho; and son, James Ray Ivers Junior, of Wortham, Texas.

She has 31 grandchildren, 107 great-grandchildren and 17 great-great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by two husbands, John Richard Ivers Sr. and Anthony Bello. She had three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions can be made to New Beginnings in Warrensburg in care of the funeral
home.