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Bell, Erwin Earl   224445
Birth: 02/05/1909    Death: 01/25/1956    Marriage: 11/09/1930
Cemetery: Evergreen (37-30-02)
Record Source: The Paris News, Headstone
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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/18/2025)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, 25 Jan 1956: "E. E. (Earl) Bell, chief inspector of the State Highway Department here, was buried here Thursday. He died unexpectedly of a heart attack. Son of E. H. and Martha Simmons Bell of Honey Grove, he was born 5 Feb 1910 [sic]. He was graduated from Honey Grove High School and played on Paris Junior College’s first championship football team. He served in the Seabees in World War II. Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Myrtle Pride, whom he married 9 Nov 1930; his mother, Mrs. E. H. Bell, Honey Grove; a son, Lt. Earl H. Bell, USAF, Portland, Ore.; a grandchild and these sisters and brothers: Mrs. Leon Meade, Gladewater; Mrs. James Bowman, Rochester, N.Y.; L. D. Bell, Bonham and Wyatt Bell, Honey Grove."

THE DETROIT NEWS-HERALD, 26 Jan 1956 from microfilm in Clarksville Library: "E. E. ‘Earl’ Bell, 45, chief inspector of the state highway engineer department, died unexpectedly of a heart attack about 4 a.m. Wednesday at his home in Paris. Funeral Thursday. A native of Honey Grove, served in the Seabees during WW II, he was married to Miss Myrtle Pride on 9 Nov 1930, who survives, besides a son, a grandchild, his mother, 2 brothers and 2 sisters."

On the same stone with Myrtle Pride Bell.

War Notes Rank

World War II

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