Navarro County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Bell, Stephen December 22, 1955 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jane Smith Janebsmit@aol.com September 13, 2006, 5:37 pm Corsicana Daily Sun OBITUARIES Corsicana Daily Sun December 23, 1955 Stephen C. Bell Dies Thursday Stephen C. Bell, 57, died at the Corsicana Hospital and Clinic Thursday afternoon following a several weeks' illness of a heart attack. Bell had operated the High School Cleaners, 928 West Fifth Avenue, for a number of years. He resided at 1609 West Second Avenue. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Helen Bartlett Bell, Corsicana; a daughter, Mrs. Roy Harwell, Lima, Ohio; two grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. W. F. Hodge, Rice and Mrs. Clyde Barrington Overton; two brothers, Hugh Bell, Rice, and Lee Bell, Meridian, Miss. and other relatives. Funeral services will be held from the McCammon Chapel, Saturday at 2 P.M. The rites will be conducted by Rev. John Wesley Ford, pastor of the First Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Resthaven Memorial Park on Highway 31 west of Corsicana. Pallbearers will be Albert Fullerton, Johnny Noble, Gaston Gooch, William Croft, Paul Baggett and Floyd Smith. Saturday Rites for Stephen Bell Funeral services for Stephen C. Bell, 57, Well-known Corsicana business man, were held from the McCammon Chapel Saturday at 3:30 P.M. The rites were conducted by Rev. John Wesley Ford, pastor of the First Methodist Church, of which Bell was an active member. Burial was in the Resthaven Memorial Park. Bell died in the Corsicana Hospital and Clinic Thursday afternoon following a several weeks' illness of a heart attack. He had operated the High School Cleaners business at 928 West Fifth Avenue for a number of years. The Bell Home was at 1609 West Second Avenue. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Helen Bartlett Bell, Corsicana; a daughter, Mrs. Roy Harwell, Lima, Ohio; two grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. W. F. Hodge, Rice, and Mrs. Clyde Barrington, Overton; two brothers, Hugh Bell, Rice and Lee Bell, Meridian, Miss., and other relatives. Pallbearers were Albert Fullerton, Johnny Noble, Gaston Gooch, William Croft, Paul Baggett and Floyd Smith. Additional Comments: Stephen Clark Bell was the son of William Henry and Nannie Belle Guthrie Bell of Rice, Navarro County, Texas. Picture of grave stone submitted. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/navarro/obits/b/bell272gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/txfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb