Mary Belle Webb, the daughter of Dwight and Ruth Hendrix Shultz, was born in Springfield, Missouri, February 28, 1919. After attending Gulf Park College for Women in Gulf Port, Mississippi, she graduated from Drury College, and taught for a year at McDaniel School. Mary Belle and L. Richard Webb, also from Springfield, were married September 11, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts, where Dick was completing his medical residency following graduation from Harvard Medical School. When he began his service in the Navy, Mary Belle returned to Springfield where their daughter, Lesley, was born in 1945. After the war, they settled in Springfield, and daughter Carol was born in 1950. While raising her family, Mary Belle gave her time to a variety of causes and committees in support of her husband, her children, her community and National Avenue Christian Church. She also maintained an attitude and practice of lifetime learning, and her interests in people, folk art and Early American and Southwest American history and culture were reflected in the homes she created, both in Springfield and in their second home in La Veta, Colorado. Dick and Mary Belle spent many happy years exploring New Mexico and southern Colorado, and she moved permanently to La Veta following Dick's death in 2000. She left this life peacefully in Pueblo, CO on October 2, 2015. She was also preceded in death by her beloved brother, Dwight Shultz, Jr, and a son-in-law, Grady Sanford. She is survived by daughters Lesley and her husband Dick Tate, Careywood, Idaho, and Carol Sanford, Kansas City, Missouri. She is also survived by three grandsons and their families: Rob Knoblock and Missy York, Scott and Jennifer Knoblock and their sons, Kenneth and Max, and Marc Knoblock. She was much loved and will be greatly missed. Arrangements for a graveside service will be announced at a later date.