Mrs. I.C. BELL 1878-1951

BELL, DAUGHDRILL, DIMMITT, HEMPY, HOUGH, KING, NEWBY, POWELL, TAYLOR, WEBSTER, WILLEY

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Date: 9/8/2006 at 13:35:06

Fort Madison Evening Democrat – Tues., July 17, 1951

Bell Funeral to Be Wednesday

Funeral services for Mrs. Anna (Laura) NEWBY Bell, 72, of Mount Hamill, who died Sunday, will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Clay Grove M.E. church. She died at her home, the Bell Pioneer Homestead, of a heart attack.

A lifelong resident of Lee county, she was the daughter of the late Mathew and Martha Serena POWELL Newby, born Sept. 28, 1878, in the Newby home called Sunnyside which formerly stood northwest from where she died. On Oct. 19, 1904, she married I.C. (Clyde) BELL at a ceremony held at Sunnyside.

She was a member of the Clay Grove M.E. church and an accomplished nurse assisting the injured soldiers from WWI and many patients in the Fort Madison and Burlington area.

Surviving are two sons and one daughter: Fletcher Clyde BELL, at home; Robert M. BELL, Dayton Ohio; Mrs. Forrest (Helen) DAUGHDRILL Fort Wayne, Indiana. Also surviving are two sisters and two brothers: Mrs. Ada Newby WILLEY, Burlington; Mrs. Alta Newby WEBSTER, Modesto, California; George Edward NEWBY, LaGrange, Wyoming; Dr. J.M. NEWBY, Mount Hamill and three grandchildren.

Besides her parents she was preceded in death by one daughter, Louise, on April 6, 1916; one sister, Mrs. Mary Cyrena Newby TAYLOR and three step-sisters, Mrs. Ella Mae (HEMPY) KING, Mrs. Ida Belle (HEMPY) HOUGH and Mrs. Nancy Olive (HEMPY) DIMMITT.

The body is at Millers’ Home for Funerals, Donnellson. It will be removed to the Clay Grove church at 8 a.m. Wednesday to lie in state until the services. The casket will not be opened after the services. Interment will be at Clay Grove cemetery. Pallbearers will be nephews Harold NEWBY, Mt. Hamill; Ralph NEWBY, Fort Madison and Kenneth NEWBY, Mount Pleasant; Gilbert BELL, Donnellson and Fred TAYLOR, Hillsboro.

[This was transcribed for Lee county Iowa genealogy purposes, the news clipping was found among other family scrapbook items gathered by Mrs. J.M. Newby, 1882-1964.]

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