Mary Wells

Published 7:03 pm Monday, April 7, 2025

Mary Wells

Dec. 22, 1925–April 5, 2025

Mary L. Wells, 99, of Ironton, passed away Saturday, April 5, 2025, at the Concord Health and Rehabilitation Center in Wheelersburg.

The South Point native was born Dec. 22, 1925, a daughter of the late Edward Legg and Lydia Mills Legg.

Mary lived all of her life in Lawrence County and was a 1943 graduate of South Point High School.

She took great pride in being a homemaker and was a wonderful, mother, grandmother and great grandmother.

Mary was a former member of the Pine Street United Methodist Church and was attending the Resurrection Hope Methodist Church in Ironton.

She was a former member of the Lawrence Chapter #437, Order of Eastern Star.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond S. Wells; three children, Pamela Wells, Tom Wells and Donna Douglas; daughter-in-law, Suzanne Wells; son-in-law, John Douglas; grandson, Matthew Timothy Walters; three brothers, Fred Legg, Charles Legg, Don Legg; and three sisters, Mildred Bailey, Ethel Federswich and Ruth Clemons

Those left to cherish Mary’s memory are her son, Larry “Tank” Wells; and her daughter and son-in-law, Paula and Tim Walters, both of Ironton; and daughter-in-law, Georgia Wells, of Whitestown, Indiana; 11 grandchildren, Kenny Wells, Pat Braun, Kenele Malia Ebbini, Michelle Wells, Thomas Wells, Donna Lawless, John Douglas, Tom Douglas, Kevin Wells, Kelli Fuhr, and Michael Walters; and a host of great grandchildren.

Graveside services will be 12:30 p.m. Friday in Highland Memorial Gardens, South Point, with Pastor Terry Jones officiating.

There will be no public visitation time.

Memorial donations can be made to Resurrection Hope Methodist Church, 617 Wyanoke St. Ironton, Ohio 45638.

To offer online condolences to the family, please visit www.phillipsfuneralhome.net.