Services were Sunday, May 16, in Powell Funeral Home, Wellman, with the Reverend Billy Claywell officiating. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery, rural Wellman.

Born November 21, 1916, near Iowa City, he was the son of John and Nancy (Hubbel) Bell.

George Edward Bell, 82, died Thursday, May 13, 1999, in University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, following a brief illness.

Services were Sunday, May 16, in Powell Funeral Home, Wellman, with the Reverend Billy Claywell officiating. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery, rural Wellman.

Born November 21, 1916, near Iowa City, he was the son of John and Nancy (Hubbel) Bell.

He married Gladys Sinkey August 26, 1937, in Belle Plaine. The couple lived in the Wellman area until moving to Sigourney in 1956.

Mr. Bell farmed and drove truck for Schimmelpfennig Elevator, Applegets Mill and Cassens Mill until retiring. He was a member of Sigourney Church of Christ.

Survivors include his wife, Gladys, of Sigourney; four sons and their wives, John and Hazel of Caledonia, Ohio, Russell and Mary Ellen of Canyon Country, California, Lonnie R. and Pauline of Sigourney, and George A. and Terri of St. Paul, Minnesota; four daughters and two sons-in-law, Nancy and John Payne of Lawrence, Kansas, Merry Avery of Perry, Kansas, Georgia and Jim Porter of Lawrence, and Penny Melsarek of Apple Valley, Minneosta; twenty grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, an infant granddaughter, two brothers, Lloyd Bell and Oscar Bell, and one sister, Lavanda Fabor.

A general memorial fund has been established.

Powell Funeral Home, Wellman, in charge of arrangements.