Printed in the Memphis Annual Conference Journal of the United Methodist Church in 1978
Louise Witt Bell, widow of the Reverend George William Bell, was born May 21, 1905, in Halls, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Aristo Bulus and Ella Palmer Witt.
Louise was educated in the city schools of Halls and Memphis State University, and married George Bell in First Baptist Church there on November 11, 1924.
They boarded a train, following their wedding, to go to her first session of the Memphis Annual Conference, then being held at Union Avenue Methodist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Here she would receive her first appointment as a Methodist minister's wife-a role she filled faithfully and well throughout her life. An interesting sidelight to her Annual Conference experience was her own personal statement that ... "My feet nearly killed me all week because I had bought all my trousseau shoes too small ... "
From that first appointment and Methodist parsonage experience in Mercer, Tennessee, where her husband served well and managed to attend Lambuth College in Jackson, Tennessee, Louise followed her minister husband in the itinerant system of our church devotedly and lovingly over the years of an illustrious career in several of the fine churches of our conference.
An early illness forced her husband to retire from the active ministry in 1953, and they moved to Humboldt, Tennessee, where they made their home. George died April 18, 1960.
Two children were born to this couple- Robert Witt, a very successful pharmacist in Humboldt today and Dr. Samuel George Bell, who preceded his mother in death on April 29, 1975, following a heart attack, a successful doctor in Murray, Kentucky.
Louise was active in her church work right up until her illness forced her to bed, but, like the gallant trouper she was, she maintained her faith and lively sense of humor right up to the moment she breathed her last breath and God called her to her eternal dwelling on Sunday afternoon, October 9, 1977.
It has been in the past four years as minister of First Methodist Humboldt that I have come to deeply know and respect and love Louise and her many contributions to her church and the ministers who served as her pastor. She was my friend, my confidante and a co-worker in the church and God's Kingdom. I miss her warm smile and cheerful helpfulness, along with her family and a host of friends.
One day we shall meet again!
-- William R. McClarin
Louise Witt Bell, widow of the Reverend George William Bell, was born May 21, 1905, in Halls, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Aristo Bulus and Ella Palmer Witt.
Louise was educated in the city schools of Halls and Memphis State University, and married George Bell in First Baptist Church there on November 11, 1924.
They boarded a train, following their wedding, to go to her first session of the Memphis Annual Conference, then being held at Union Avenue Methodist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Here she would receive her first appointment as a Methodist minister's wife-a role she filled faithfully and well throughout her life. An interesting sidelight to her Annual Conference experience was her own personal statement that ... "My feet nearly killed me all week because I had bought all my trousseau shoes too small ... "
From that first appointment and Methodist parsonage experience in Mercer, Tennessee, where her husband served well and managed to attend Lambuth College in Jackson, Tennessee, Louise followed her minister husband in the itinerant system of our church devotedly and lovingly over the years of an illustrious career in several of the fine churches of our conference.
An early illness forced her husband to retire from the active ministry in 1953, and they moved to Humboldt, Tennessee, where they made their home. George died April 18, 1960.
Two children were born to this couple- Robert Witt, a very successful pharmacist in Humboldt today and Dr. Samuel George Bell, who preceded his mother in death on April 29, 1975, following a heart attack, a successful doctor in Murray, Kentucky.
Louise was active in her church work right up until her illness forced her to bed, but, like the gallant trouper she was, she maintained her faith and lively sense of humor right up to the moment she breathed her last breath and God called her to her eternal dwelling on Sunday afternoon, October 9, 1977.
It has been in the past four years as minister of First Methodist Humboldt that I have come to deeply know and respect and love Louise and her many contributions to her church and the ministers who served as her pastor. She was my friend, my confidante and a co-worker in the church and God's Kingdom. I miss her warm smile and cheerful helpfulness, along with her family and a host of friends.
One day we shall meet again!
-- William R. McClarin
Printed in the Memphis Annual Conference Journal of the United Methodist Church in 1978
Louise Witt Bell, widow of the Reverend George William Bell, was born May 21, 1905, in Halls, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Aristo Bulus and Ella Palmer Witt.
Louise was educated in the city schools of Halls and Memphis State University, and married George Bell in First Baptist Church there on November 11, 1924.
They boarded a train, following their wedding, to go to her first session of the Memphis Annual Conference, then being held at Union Avenue Methodist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Here she would receive her first appointment as a Methodist minister's wife-a role she filled faithfully and well throughout her life. An interesting sidelight to her Annual Conference experience was her own personal statement that ... "My feet nearly killed me all week because I had bought all my trousseau shoes too small ... "
From that first appointment and Methodist parsonage experience in Mercer, Tennessee, where her husband served well and managed to attend Lambuth College in Jackson, Tennessee, Louise followed her minister husband in the itinerant system of our church devotedly and lovingly over the years of an illustrious career in several of the fine churches of our conference.
An early illness forced her husband to retire from the active ministry in 1953, and they moved to Humboldt, Tennessee, where they made their home. George died April 18, 1960.
Two children were born to this couple- Robert Witt, a very successful pharmacist in Humboldt today and Dr. Samuel George Bell, who preceded his mother in death on April 29, 1975, following a heart attack, a successful doctor in Murray, Kentucky.
Louise was active in her church work right up until her illness forced her to bed, but, like the gallant trouper she was, she maintained her faith and lively sense of humor right up to the moment she breathed her last breath and God called her to her eternal dwelling on Sunday afternoon, October 9, 1977.
It has been in the past four years as minister of First Methodist Humboldt that I have come to deeply know and respect and love Louise and her many contributions to her church and the ministers who served as her pastor. She was my friend, my confidante and a co-worker in the church and God's Kingdom. I miss her warm smile and cheerful helpfulness, along with her family and a host of friends.
One day we shall meet again!
-- William R. McClarin
Louise Witt Bell, widow of the Reverend George William Bell, was born May 21, 1905, in Halls, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Aristo Bulus and Ella Palmer Witt.
Louise was educated in the city schools of Halls and Memphis State University, and married George Bell in First Baptist Church there on November 11, 1924.
They boarded a train, following their wedding, to go to her first session of the Memphis Annual Conference, then being held at Union Avenue Methodist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Here she would receive her first appointment as a Methodist minister's wife-a role she filled faithfully and well throughout her life. An interesting sidelight to her Annual Conference experience was her own personal statement that ... "My feet nearly killed me all week because I had bought all my trousseau shoes too small ... "
From that first appointment and Methodist parsonage experience in Mercer, Tennessee, where her husband served well and managed to attend Lambuth College in Jackson, Tennessee, Louise followed her minister husband in the itinerant system of our church devotedly and lovingly over the years of an illustrious career in several of the fine churches of our conference.
An early illness forced her husband to retire from the active ministry in 1953, and they moved to Humboldt, Tennessee, where they made their home. George died April 18, 1960.
Two children were born to this couple- Robert Witt, a very successful pharmacist in Humboldt today and Dr. Samuel George Bell, who preceded his mother in death on April 29, 1975, following a heart attack, a successful doctor in Murray, Kentucky.
Louise was active in her church work right up until her illness forced her to bed, but, like the gallant trouper she was, she maintained her faith and lively sense of humor right up to the moment she breathed her last breath and God called her to her eternal dwelling on Sunday afternoon, October 9, 1977.
It has been in the past four years as minister of First Methodist Humboldt that I have come to deeply know and respect and love Louise and her many contributions to her church and the ministers who served as her pastor. She was my friend, my confidante and a co-worker in the church and God's Kingdom. I miss her warm smile and cheerful helpfulness, along with her family and a host of friends.
One day we shall meet again!
-- William R. McClarin
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