James Leroy Bell

WWII Navy veteran retired

from Mercer Forge

Funeral will be Tuesday for James

Leroy Bell, 51 Pine Grove Mobile

Home Court, Coolspring Township.

He died at 1:16 p.m. Thursday (12-7-

00) in White-Cliff Nursing Home,

Hempfield Township, after a oneyear

illness. He was 75.

Mr. Bell was born April 1, 1925, in

North Liberty to David Reed and

Elsie Edna Strawhecker Bell.

He retired in 1986 after 33 years

from Mercer Forge Co., where he

worked in the maintenance department.

He was a member of United

Steelworkers Local 5306.

A Navy veteran, Mr. Bell served

during World War II and was a life

member and member of the board of

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6345,

Mercer.

He was a Protestant.

Mr. Bell was an avid fisherman

and hunter.

His wife, the former Mary Helen

Rihel, whom he married May 3,

1950, died July 14, 1990.

Surviving are: a daughter, Sherry

Bell Houston, Mercer, and a sister,

Florence Heasley, Grove City.

Besides his wife, he was preceded

in death by three brothers, Hartley

Uber and David and Floyd Bell; and

five sisters, Sergie Boyd, Laura

Wimer, Ethel Rodemoyer, Alma Sidley

and Carrie Snyder.

BELL

James Leroy, 75, of 51 Pine Grove Mobile

Home Court, Coolspring Township.

Calling hours: 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Monday (12-11-00) in CUNNINGHAM FUNERAL

HOME Inc., 306 Bessemer Ave., Grove

City.

Service: Funeral service at 11 a.m. Tuesday

(12-12-00) in the funeral home, with the

Rev. Byron Harvey, pastor of Fellowship Community

Church, Mercer, officiating.

Burial: Prairie Cemetery, Harrisville.