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!BIRTH: Wichita Falls Times Record News, 17 Feb 1995, Page 4a.
OCCUPATION: Wichita Falls Times Record News, 17 Feb 1995, Page 4a.
DEATH: Wichita Falls Times Record News, 17 Feb 1995, Page 4a.
Services were held at 1pm Friday February 17, 1995 at the First Christian
Church of Wichita Falls, Texas with Dr. John Muir officiating. Burial
with
Doe's graveside rites was in Highland Cemetery in Iowa Park under the
direction
of Hampton'Vaughan Funeral Home. Mrs. Levell was a vocalist with several
groups specializing in music and songs of the Big Band era, with a career
that
spanned 35 years. She started in the late 1940's on radio station KMOB
out of
Mobile, Ala. From the 1950's through the early 1980's, she performed
with the
Ford Keeler Orchestra, Art Toftie and the Connie Levell Trio, which
consisted
of Max Miller, Buddy Nickols and Peggy Albright, on several occassions.
She
opened the original Windjammer Club in the Trade Winds Motor Hotel and
played
for 52 consecutive weeks, a feat that has not been duplicated by any other
group.
She was a member of DOE's Drove No. 154 and served as attendant from
1970 to
1972. She was a life member of Musician's Union No. 172-147 and a member
of
the Fort Worth Professional Musicians Association. She sang for
children's
Christmas parties for Bowie School for 23 years. She also sang for the
School
for Listening Eyes and later Cunningham Special Education Center. She was
called the White Angle. She and Olin C. Levell were married june 14,
1944. He
died April 20, 1986. She was also a percussionist and was a member of
the First
Christian Church.
