Funeral services for Lella Delores House, 76, of Guthrie, Okla. will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Guthrie. Dr. V.L. Jones of Mt. Zion Baptist Church will be officiating. Burial will be at Summit View Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Home in Guthrie. Lella was born on Nov. 17, 1923 in Parsons, Kan. to Guy and Lillie Burns. She died Thursday, Dec. 2, 1999 at Integrated Specialty Hospital in Edmond, Okla.
Lella was preceded in death by her husband, A.W., in 1996, two sisters and both parents. She is survived by three sons, Marcellus House and Inman Stacy House, both of Guthrie and Carlton House of Beaumont, Texas; two daughters, Ramona Tiger and Serita Patton, both of Guthrie. Fifteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.