Funeral services for Mrs. Zople Sells, age 94, of Cookeville will be conducted at 2 p.m., Thursday, March 15, 2012 from the Chapel of Speck Funeral Home in Livingston with Bro. Johnnie Fox officiating. Burial will be in the Good Hope Cemetery in Livingston. The family will receive on Wednesday from 4 until 9 p.m.Mrs. Sells died March 12, 2012 at NHC Health Care Center in Sparta. She was born October 17, 1917 in Overton County to the late Ezra Ella Allred McDonald. She was a homemaker.She was a member of Stevens Street Baptist Church.She is survived by 2 daughters sons-in-law, Rita James Bilbrey and Anna Robert Hutcheson, Jr., all of Cookeville; 2 sisters, Veantha Johnson and Joyce Speck, both of Livingston; 3 grandchildren, James Bilbrey Jr., Jennifer Bilbrey, Thomas Hutcheson; and a great-grandson, Jeremy Roberts.She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband: Evars Sells, brother: Arthur McDonald, and sister: Norlene Norris.
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