Stella L. Arnold, 78, of Big Spring, died on Monday, December 3, 2007, in a local hospital. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Thursday, December 6, 2007 at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel with Ralph Anderson, minister of Birdwell Lane Church of Christ officiating. Interment will follow at Mt. Olive Memorial Park.She was born on April 3, 1929, in Big Spring, Texas and married Cecil Arnold on October 6, 1946 in Midland, Texas.Mrs. Arnold was raised in Big Spring and graduated from Big Spring High School where she was a member of the National Honor Society. Stella was the first woman to have the honor of retiring from the Colorado River Municipal Water District after twenty-one years of service. She worked for the proposing and completion of Ivie Lake and the dam on the Colorado River. Mrs. Arnold was a charter member of the Big Spring Genealogical Society where she served on the board for several years. She was a member of Birdwell Lane Church of Christ.Survivors include her husband of sixty-one years, Cecil Arnold of Big Spring; one son, John "Pinky" Arnold, of Big Spring; one daughter, Carla Arnold of Big Spring; three sisters, Ozelle Tynes Wright, Lenna Tynes Wyman, and Mildred Vaughn all of Big Spring, five grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Hunter Harold Tynes and Fisher P. Tynes; and two sisters, Frances Tynes Taylor and Geraldine Tynes Harris.Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences can be made at: www.npwelch.com,
