On March 4, 1935, Leola Dial Bell & Fesser Thomas Sr. gave birth to their child, our beloved Queen, Odell Thomas, in Bessemer, Alabama. She was the ninth child out of thirteen children. On October 5, 2002 surrounded by her family, at approximately 8:30 pm, in Maywood Illinois. Odell lost a brief battle to cancer on earth, she won a well done servants reward to enter eternity with a new set of keys to a mansion in Heaven.