Stella Reese

Stella Marie Reece
November 25, 1943 - June 4, 2020

Stella Marie Reese was born to Willie and Roberta Wyatt on November 25, 1943 in Livingston, Texas. She was the 4th offspring of 9. In 1959 she married her husband Oliver Jack Reese and started a family. She loved to feed everybody and her door was always open. She never met a stranger. A few of her favorite things were to cook, play spades, chew bubble gum, and watch Walker Texas Ranger. There was no one who could make a sweet potato pie or greens like Stella Reese.

She was preceded in death by her parents: Roberta and Willie Wyatt, her sister: Evelyn Wyatt, her brothers: Willie Wyatt Jr. and Lister Wyatt, her son: Clenneth Reese and grandchildren: Stella Trahan and Rachel Reese.

She leaves to cherish her memories her children and their spouses: Helen and John Bernard Henderson Sr.; Mary O’Bryant, Oliver Jack Reece Jr., and Mary Wyatt, Estella and Reginald Young, Sherrie Reece. Terry Reece and Pamela Reece. Her grandchildren and their spouses Brandon and Dedra Henderson, John Bernard Jr. and Stacey Henderson, Sheldon Henderson, Corland and Candice Henderson, Charquinthia and DeAngelo Buchanan, Harold O’Bryant Jr. and fiance Natasha Fields, Clenneth and Mashay O’Bryant, Rodrick Reese, Jackeya Reece and Craig Washington, Jackenda Reece, Krystal Trahan, Kelvin Reece, Jackisha Reece, Brittany and Keisha McDaniel, Rodneishia O’Bryant, Deiontae Reece, Ashley Reece and Kourtney Terrell, 49 great grandchildren, and 3 great great grandchildren, 2 sisters and their spouses, Mary and Kenneth Wayne, Roberta and Bobby Ray Jackson Sr., Joe Wyatt and Charles and Akins Wyatt and a host of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers: Chris Reece, Lorenzo Ross, Harold Craig O’Bryant Sr., Bobby Jackson Jr., Alaric Manuel Jr., Curtis Henderson

Honorary Pallbearers: Oliver Jack Reece Jr., Bernard Henderson, Sheldon Henderson, Corland Henderson, Clenneth O’Bryant, Harold Craig O’Bryant Jr., Rodrick Reece, Kelvin Reece

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