Arnold Cemetery

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"Services were held Monday July 29, 1996, at the United Methodist Chruch in Arnold for Estell V. "Babe" Dillon Flint, who died July 25 at Sandhills Manor in Broken Bow at the age of 87. The Rev. Doug Smith and Rev Victor Karg officiated. Survivors include her daughters, Mrs. Harold (Barbara) Whitcomb of Arnold and Mrs. Terry (Sharon) Conley of Oxnard California, sons Robert and wife Jean Flint of Arnold and Donnell and wife Cheri Flint of Arnold; 14 grandchildren, two step grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren; many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends and special friends of Riverview Apartments. She is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Wayne (Idris) Welsh of Vernonia, Oregon. Estelle V. "Babe" Flint was born November 17, 1908, at Garfield Table in Lincoln County to Abner and Minnie Smith Dillon. Her father died in 1918 in the flu epidemic. She attended and graduated from school on the Garfield Table and Logan County High School at Gandy. She worked in department and grocery stores in Arnol and Stapleton after high school. On October 25, 1931, she married Arthur L Flint. The helped send her sisters, Marie and Idres to school and helped care for a niece Bernilee. Art was in the trucking business, so they helped a lot of hired men. To this marriage four children were born. The couple saw them all attend school and graduate in Stapleton. At the family get-togethers, everyone knew what the menu would be- chicken and noodles and butter beans. The couple resided in Stapleton on the little acreage until 1978 when they moved to Arnold to be near their children. Babe was proceeded in death by her parents, her husband of 51 years, brothers, Loren, Harry and Frank Dillon, sisters Hershall Chapman and Marie Stockall" - Judy Deterding Allen