Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bell, Mary Humphries April 14, 1940 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dorothy Strawhand dotstrawhand@yahoo.ocm December 18, 2015, 10:08 pm The Norfolk Virginian Pilot April 15, 1940 Mrs. Mary Humphries Bell, aged 81, died yesterday morning at 7:30 o'clock at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. Preston Ives, of Oceana. Mrs. Bell was the mother of Joseph H. Bell vice president of the T.S. Southgate Co., of Norfolk, and Dr. C.C. Bell, former presiding elder of the Portsmouth-Newport News district of the Virginia Methodist Conference and now pastor of Washington Street Methodist Church, Alexandria. She had been ill for a long while. Mrs. Bell was a native of Shawboro, N.C., but had been a resident of of Oceana for the past two years. She was the widow of Joseph P. Bell, daughter of the late Mrs. Mary Frost Humphries, and a member of Oceana Methodist Church. Besides her two sons, Mrs. Bell is survived by a daughter, Mrs. E. Preston Ives, of Oceana; a sister, Mrs. H.A. Cason of Portsmouth; a brother, T.F. Humphries of Norfolk, and four grandchildren, Mrs. E. Ruffin Jones, Jr., of Norfolk; Howard P. Ives, of Oceana; Miss Thelma Leigh Bell, a student at the College of William and Mary, and C. Cooper Bell, Jr., a student at Randolph Macon College, Ashland. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Oceana Methodist Church. The Rev. A.A. McNeer, pastor of Oceana Church, and the Rev. H.S. Southgate, pastor of Smithfield Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the family plot in Magnolia Cemetery, Norfolk. Additional Comments: Magnolia BELL, MARY H I3642 Block C, Lot 5, Space SW 0 04/14/1940 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/b/bell10302gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb