Obituary of Donald Fredrick Rightsell

Services for Donald Fredrick Rightsell, 92, Winona, will be at 10:00 am, Monday, October 12, 2015 in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home chapel, Overton, with Bishop David Poole, Jim Rightsell and Jack Rightsell officiating. Burial will be in Overton City Cemetery. Mr. Rightsell died Saturday, October 10, 2015 in Winona at his residence. He was born November 16, 1922 in Upland, Arkansas to the late Earl Ervin and Maty Marie Neale Rightsell. He married Dorothy Lee Dykes March 6, 1947 in Kilgore and has been a resident of Winona for 31 years. He worked in many states from Texas to New York as a pipefitter and retired after 60 years from Hayward-Robinson New York. He was a member of the Pipefitters Plumbers Union, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the Tyler 2nd Ward. Besides his parents, Mr. Rightsell was preceded in death by two brothers, Glen Harold Rightsell and Arnold Ervin ‘Jack’ Rightsell. Survivors include his wife Dorothy Lee Dykes Rightsell of Winona, two sons and daughters-in-law, Donald Jack and Pamela Lovelace Rightsell of Witter, Arkansas, and Jimmy Lee and Colleen Whitehead Rightsell of Pleasant Grove, Utah; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Katherine Marie Rightsell Walker of Longview, Beverly Ann and Patrick Moore, and Cynthia Elaine and Brian Harris all of Winona; 14 grandchildren; 44 great grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Jack Rightsell, Jim Rightsell, Jared Rightsell, Ben Rightsell, Jonah Welch and Pat Moore. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Sunday, October 11, 2015.