Bell, John C (1879-1961)

BELL, WOODFIELD, ROBINSON, REINHIMER, SCHRODER, GROVE, VEGORS, JANSON, BEROGAN, BROWN

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 12/12/2020 at 10:52:02

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Friday, May 19, 1961

John C. Bell, 81, lifelong Hamilton county resident, died at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Hamilton county hospital, where he had been seriously ill the past three weeks. He had been in failing health the past year.

Funeral service will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Foster funeral home with the Rev. R.D. Kitterman officiating and with burial being made in the Blairsburg cemetery.

John C. Bell, son of Thomas and Hannah Woodfield Bell, was born Nov. 21, 1879, at Blades, England. At the age of two, he came to the United States with his parents, locating on a farm near Webster City now known as the Kendall Young park farm. He was reared and educated in the Webster City and Blairsburg community.

On March 20, 1906, he was united in marriage to Minnie Barbara Robinson of Webster City and the couple farmed north of Blairsburg for many years before moving to a farm east of Webster City where they were located for 10 years. He was preceded in death by his wife in 1943.

On March 23, 1950, he was united in marriage to Ethel Reinhimer of this city, and the couple had since lived at 714 First St. in Webster City.

Surviving are his wife, two sons and four daughters, Mrs. Harold (Beulah) Schroder, Blairsburg, Melvin C. Bell, Ames, Mrs. Don (Dorothy) Grove, Blairsburg, Mrs. Keith (Lucille) Vegors, Webster City, Mrs. Richard (Ada) Janson, Webster City, and John R. Bell, who lives on the Bell farm near Williams. Also surviving are 23 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Alice Berogan and Miss Ada Bell, both of Webster City, one step-daughter, Mrs. Lyman (Rilla) Brown of Webster City, and five step-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Minnie; one son, Wilbur, who died in infancy; his parents; four brothers and three sisters.

He was a member of the Methodist church and of the Gold Leaf Rebekah lodge at Blairsburg.