Mary Lou Bond

Mary Lou was born November 28, 1934 at Newman Memorial Hospital, Shattuck, Oklahoma to Israel Edward and Zola Faye (Jones) Sells. She grew up in a two room house near May, Oklahoma and attended Luther Hill elementary school. She accepted the Lord as her Savior at the age of seven when she went with her grandmother to a Pentecost Holiness Church revival in the town of May. She graduated from Laverne High School and went on to attend Bethany Nazarene College where she met and married Marion King Bond. They were married for 49 years before Marion’s passing. She graduated from Bethany Nazarene College in 1957 with a degree in Elementary Education.

Mary Lou and Marion left Bethany to serve as ministers for the Church of the Nazarene in Kansas and Texas. They moved to Edmond, Oklahoma in 1961 and began attending the First Church of the Nazarene at Main & Blvd. Mary stayed at home with her young daughters until they were old enough to go to school. She taught fourth grade school at Deer Creek for 7 years. She received a Master’s Degree from UCO in Special Reading Education, worked at the UCO library for 25 years; 13 of those years she was coordinator of the Oklahoma Special Collections at UCO.

Mary loved her church and she has been a member of the Edmond Church of the Nazarene for 57 years. She has taught Sunday School classes, served as VBS director, choir member, served on the mission council, and on the church board. For years her passion was serving in the church nursery and making handprints for the new babies. In her later years she was passionate about preserving the history of her church and keeping the display case in the front of the church. During the past few years, she spent Sunday afternoons visiting her dear friends as they became shut-ins.

Her travels with Marion included Alaska and Germany along with several bus travel tours with her mother and grandchildren. She loved her yard and her flowers and received yard of the week many, many times. Mary loved her Lord and loved to spend time in His Word and time in prayer.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Marion; parents; and brother, Romulo Wayne “Buddy” Sells. Family members who celebrate her life are sister, Marjorie (Noble) Young; daughter, Marilyn R. (Terry) Dougherty; grandson, Will; daughter, Dana S. Jones; grand-daughter, Megan (Joe) Benton; great-grandson, Reed; grand-son, Garrett (Whitney) Jones; great-granddaughter -coming in June; Tim (Lisa) Jones; nephew, Carl (Diane) Daugherty, children Cooper and Emma; nephew, Wayne Daugherty; niece, Jacqueline (David) Owen, daughter Cody; and her beloved cousins. Like family to her and dear to her heart were Anita and Dan Endres and their children Maria, Ben, Alex; best friend, Ann Warren; and all her neighbors.