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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.