Bell, Ira Anderson 1891-1974

BELL, BOLLHOEFER, SCHUELE, CANNON, THOMPSON, PHELPS

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 2/22/2005 at 20:04:43

Ira A. Bell, 83, Dies Wednesday; Rites Saturday

Ira A. Bell, 83 of 123 E. 2nd St. S., a resident of Newton for 63 years, died Wednesday at the Skiff Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the First Christian Church. The Rev. Ray Barnett, pastor of the church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in the Newton Union Cemetery. Friends may call at the Toland-Wallace Funeral Home after 9 a.m. Friday. Memorial contributions to the First Christian Church Memorial Fund will be accepted.

Survivors are his wife, Nettie; two sons, Edgar Bell of Des Moines and Max Bell of Boone; two step-sons, Lowell Thompson and Robert Thompson, both of Grinnell; a daughter, Ruby Bollhoefer of West Chicago, Ill.; a step-daughter, Ann Schuele of Naperville, Ill,; 12 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a brother, George Bell of New Philadelphia, Ohio.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Edith Cannon Bell; two sons, Robert during World War II and Albert in 1919; a daughter, Eva in 1919; and a sister. Mr. Bell, a member of the First Christian Church, was honored for 25 years of service at the Maytag Co.

The son of Albert M. and Viola Phelps Bell, he was born Aug. 12, 1891 in Xenia, Ohio. He married to Nettie Thompson Feb 12, 1949 at Nashua. ~ Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, Sept 18 1974