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Joseph Bell

Posted 2009-07-13 by Sharla
The Wickenburg Sun
December 18, 2008

JOSEPH BELL and CARRIE ENRIQUEZ MACIAS BELL

On a beautiful clear fall afternoon following Thanksgiving, the family of CARRIE and JOSEPH BELL paid their final respects. CARRIE ENRIQUEZ was born on Feb. 3, 1931 in Phoenix, Ariz., to Viviano Enriquez and Virginia RODRIQUEZ ENRIQUEZ. She married a cousin, rancher Raymond MACIAS from Wickenburg, and lived on the 6M Ranch. Ramon died in 1964 and as his widow she inherited the historic Macias Ranch.

Carrie was a hard worker, whether she was greeting customers at the downtown Wickenburg Pharmacy, or as a personal domestic assistant to one of the winter residents living on the mesa at Los Cab. She met Joseph Bell, a union electrician on a construction project in town, and they remained side by side for more than 40 years. Together they ran cattle on the ranch until illness kept them from chores, and finally three years ago the majority of the ranch was sold. Their home place, the adobe house they constructed on the original site of the Macias Hacienda, is where they lived until relocating to an assisted care residency in Surprise.

Joe passed away on Jan. 28, 2008, and Carrie joined him on Sept. 20, 2008. Their ashes were spread in the form of their brand 4Z in the damp sand of the Hassayampa River, original land of the ranch, by their nephew Frankie Joe ROMERO. They are survived by sisters Vera ENRIQUEZ, ROMERO CHAPA, Gloria ENRIQUEZ MANSON, brother-in-law Ed MANSON, nephews Frank ROMERO and Robert ROMERO, nieces Diana and Christine and their families, cousins Manuel MACIAS, Alfred and Leroy HERSHKOWITZ, Nadine Champlin, Ersie RANDOLPH, Bobby WARNER, and many other relatives and friends.




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