BENTONVILLE — Mrs. Elizabeth Ann West Lepp

(Ann) of Rogers, Ark., age 73, passed away Monday, July 6, 2020, at Circle of Life a caring and loving community. She was born in Bentonville, Ark., to Wallace (W.W.) and Anabelle (Ausburn) West and was the youngest of four children.

Ann was preceded in death by her parents, brother Wallace Edger (Sonney) West, and friend and brother Leslie Somerville of Rogers, Ark.

Ann is survived by husband Kenneth (Steve) Lepp of Rogers; son Brad Lepp of Carrollton, Texas; daughter Kimila (K.J.) Lepp of Tulsa; Nancy Luper of Owasso, Okla.; best friend and sister Linda Somerville of Rogers; son and daughter-in-law Kip and Ceree Somerville of Garfield; and brother Arthur West of Bedford, Texas.

She was a graudate of Rogers High School class of 1964. She married her high school sweetheart on July 10, 1964, at the Monte Ne Baptist Church by the Rev. W.E. Bland.

They made their first home in El Cajon, Calif. After a very short six months they packed up and moved back to the hills where they belonged. She worked at Awards Inc., for Jack, Shiela, and Kim Counihan as chief financial officer most of her career. She was an avid reader, loved her backyard, watching her birds and other wildlife which she considered her garden of Eden on earth.

She passed four days shy of her 56 wedding anniversary.

A celebration of life will be held at Tower Park on South 9th Street on July 18, 2020, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., with CDC guidelines to be followed.

Arrangements by Benton County Memorial Park Funeral Home, Rogers, Ark. Online guestbook: www.bentoncountymemorialpark.com