Realty Investor, Civic Leader Richard C. Bell Dies At 71
Times Picayune  03-5-1996

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Richard Cushing Bell, a real estate investor and civic leader, died Monday of
liver disease at his home. He was 71.

Mr. Bell was an owner and operator of apartment houses and other real estate.

A lifelong resident of New Orleans, he attended Isidore Newman School and the
Northwood School in Lake Placid, N.Y. He graduated from Princeton University,
where he was named the outstanding debater in the senior class, and received a
master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

He was a Navy ensign during World War II, serving in the Pacific.

Mr. Bell was a past president of Goodwill Industries, the Foreign Relations
Association of New Orleans, the Louisiana Historical Society, the Japan
Society of New Orleans and the Princeton Alumni of Louisiana. He was a former
chairman of the United Nations Day observance in New Orleans and a member of
the board of the Louisiana State Museum.

In 1957, Mr. Bell, an advocate of international exchanges as a way to reduce
world tensions, attended the sixth World Youth Festival in Moscow as a U.S.
observer. In an unusual move at the time, he led a biracial local delegation
to a 1959 World Youth Festival in Austria.

He was a former board member of the Red Cross and the United Way and a past
director of the New Orleans Red Cross disaster shelters. He was a literacy
tutor with the STAIR program, an elder at St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian
Church and a member of the Pickwick Club, Bienville Club and New Orleans Lawn
and Tennis Club.

Survivors include two daughters, Abby Katherine Pierce of Oxford, Miss., and
Allison Cushing Bell; a son, Stuart Perry Bell; a sister, Helen Wagner; and
two brothers, James F. Bell of Washington, D.C., and Bryan Bell.

A funeral will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian
Church, 1545 State St. Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. Burial will be in
Metairie Cemetery. Bultman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.