Submitted by: Dan Rich

South Bend Tribune 2/20/2003

May Bell Stockbarger

May 23, 1918 - Feb. 18, 2003

Mrs. May Bell Stockbarger, 84, of Beehive Circle Drive, St. Cloud, Fla., died Tuesday, Feb. 18.

Mrs. Stockbarger was born in Mishawaka, Ind., and had lived in the central Florida area for many years. She was a retired beautician who had her own beauty shop in Indiana.

She is survived by her daughter, Connie Gessner of Kissimmee, Fla.; son, Fred Stockbarger of Port Charles, Fla.; sister, Violet Young of Mishawaka; 18 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; and by several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Maxwell Stockbarger, and by a son, Ronald Stockbarger.

Visitation for May Bell will be held Friday, Feb. 21, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Osceola Memory Gardens Funeral Home in Kissimmee. Family has chosen cremation to follow the visitation.

Osceola Memory Gardens Cemetery, Funeral Home and Crematory was in charge of arrangements.