Just a few weeks before she was stabbed to death during a burglary in her Lancaster home, 86-year-old Annie Bell was on stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles receiving an award for her 17 years of volunteer work at the Antelope Valley Senior Center.
The event was part of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ Older American Recognition Day on May 21. It’s a beautiful memory for Bell’s oldest daughter, Hallie Conley, and describing it helps keep her anger in check, at least for a little while.