Michael David Bell 1943 - 2009

TURNER, BELL, PEARSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 6/3/2019 at 20:39:12

Onawa Democrat
6 May 2009

Mike Bell, 65, of rural Hornick and Grant Center, Iowa area, died suddenly, Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at a hospital in Sioux City, Iowa.

Michael David Bell was born May 1, 1943 at Glendale, CA, the son of William and Maxine (Turner) Bell. He was raised and educated in California and also lived several years in Arizona. He was an educational film producer at the University of Arizona's Radio and TV Department. In 1980, he moved to Iowa to pursue agriculture and his future wife and family.

Mike and Charlotte Pearson Bainbridge were united in marriage September 17, 1982 at Onawa, Iowa.

Mike had served in the United States Army Reserve. Through out his life, he had been employed at various chemical companies in Arizona and Iowa and was nearing retirement at Nutra-Flo after 22 years. He was presently serving on the Industrial Instrumentation and Control Board with Northwest Iowa Community College at Sheldon, Iowa.

Mike was always giving and caring to others; and at the end of his life, he was an Iowa Organ Donor.

Survivors include his wife, Charlotte of Hornick; a daughter and her husband, Toni and Mike Wood and a grandson, Marcus all of Walls, MS; a step daughter, Jennifer Dunning of Las Vegas, NV; a brother and his wife, Kit and Lynn Bell of Wetstone, AZ; two sisters and their husbands, Billie and Larry Tappan of Page, AZ and Kimberly Bell-McDowell and Will McDowell of Missoula, MT and his mother-in-law, Lottie Pierce of Onawa.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a son, Aaron Bainbridge.

A memorial service was 2:30 P.M. Monday, May 4, 2009 at Rush Family Chapel in Onawa, Iowa with Will McDowell officiating. Music selections were "Till There Was You", "Unchained Melody" and "On The Wings Of An Angel". There was no visitation or burial.