Born Oct. 20, 1941, at New Madrid, daughter of the late L.S. Hartzog and Marjorie Schaffer Mims, she was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dexter and a homemaker.
In April 1994, she married David J. Acord who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: two sons, John D. Shell and Robert A. Shell of Dexter; one daughter, Mary Elizabeth Shell of Dexter; one brother, Gary Schaffer of Alexandria, Va.; one sister, Mary Louis Piatkiewicz of Phoenix, Ariz; and four grandchildren.
Visitation is from noon Thursday until time for a memorial service at 2 p.m. at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. The Rev. Don Kennedy will officiate.
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