In October 1922 Gordon, when he was age nine, had what was then diagnosed as meningitis, but his sister Jane (a nurse) wrote in 1990 that she thinks it really was polio.
Gordon was a physician. For many years he was an emergency room physician at the hospital in Williamsburg, VA. After retirement he volunteered some medical mission service to a very remote mission among natives in South America. Gordon and Frances lived at their home in Williamsburg for many years, from before 1975 and still Frances was still there in mid-2002.
Gordon and Frances were married at Franklin Street Methodist Church in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Gordon had always been a Presbyterian until he moved to Williamsburg, but there he joined the Bruton Episcopal Church because it had an excellent choir, and he wanted to be in that choir. He loved singing in it. Gordon later was confined to a nursing home where he suffered with Alzheimer's disease, not knowing people, and dying Wednesday, October 20, 1999.
This is the obituary printed in The Hastings Tribune, Hastings, Nebraska: "Former Hastings resident Gordon D. Bell, 86, died Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1999, in Williamsburg, Va.
"Services were Oct. 23 at Bruton Parish Episcopal Church in Williamsburg. Burial was in Williamsburg Memorial Park. Bucktrout of Williamsburg Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
"Mr. Bell was born to Oliver Perry and Alice Gray Bell in Ord. He and his family later moved to Hastings and he graduated from college there. He then graduated from medical school at the University of Nebraska, where he completed his residency and internship. In 1946 he married Frances Tomb. He practiced general surgery in Johnstown, PA., and surgery at State General Hospital in Nanticoke, PA. After entering private practice in Kingston, PA, he worked with Nesbitt Memorial Hospital and Nanticoke State General Hospital. While he was director of American Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he helped victims of Hurricane Agnes in Luzerne County, where he also was civil defense director. After the 1972 flood, he and his family moved to Williamsburg. He was the first full-time emergency room emergency room doctor at Williamsburg Community Hospital. He retired in 1983 and spent time in Guatemala as a medical missionary through the Episcopal Church.
"He was a former member of the Masonic Lodge in Lincoln (Nebraska) and in Kingston, PA. He also was a former member of the Kinstron Rotary Club, of which he was president, and a member of the Williamsburg Rotary Club. He was a member of the Williamsburg-James City Council Medical Society and served on the first board of directors for the Hospice of Williamsburg. He taught the first group of Emergency Medical Technicians in Williamsburg. He was a former director of public health for James City County, York County and Williamsburg in Virginia.
"Survivors are his wife; two daughters, Linda Hollin of Williamsburg and Margaret Crispell of State College, PA; one sister, Jane Wilson Bell of Hastings; six grandchildren; and one great grandchild."
Gordon was a physician. For many years he was an emergency room physician at the hospital in Williamsburg, VA. After retirement he volunteered some medical mission service to a very remote mission among natives in South America. Gordon and Frances lived at their home in Williamsburg for many years, from before 1975 and still Frances was still there in mid-2002.
Gordon and Frances were married at Franklin Street Methodist Church in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Gordon had always been a Presbyterian until he moved to Williamsburg, but there he joined the Bruton Episcopal Church because it had an excellent choir, and he wanted to be in that choir. He loved singing in it. Gordon later was confined to a nursing home where he suffered with Alzheimer's disease, not knowing people, and dying Wednesday, October 20, 1999.
This is the obituary printed in The Hastings Tribune, Hastings, Nebraska: "Former Hastings resident Gordon D. Bell, 86, died Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1999, in Williamsburg, Va.
"Services were Oct. 23 at Bruton Parish Episcopal Church in Williamsburg. Burial was in Williamsburg Memorial Park. Bucktrout of Williamsburg Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
"Mr. Bell was born to Oliver Perry and Alice Gray Bell in Ord. He and his family later moved to Hastings and he graduated from college there. He then graduated from medical school at the University of Nebraska, where he completed his residency and internship. In 1946 he married Frances Tomb. He practiced general surgery in Johnstown, PA., and surgery at State General Hospital in Nanticoke, PA. After entering private practice in Kingston, PA, he worked with Nesbitt Memorial Hospital and Nanticoke State General Hospital. While he was director of American Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he helped victims of Hurricane Agnes in Luzerne County, where he also was civil defense director. After the 1972 flood, he and his family moved to Williamsburg. He was the first full-time emergency room emergency room doctor at Williamsburg Community Hospital. He retired in 1983 and spent time in Guatemala as a medical missionary through the Episcopal Church.
"He was a former member of the Masonic Lodge in Lincoln (Nebraska) and in Kingston, PA. He also was a former member of the Kinstron Rotary Club, of which he was president, and a member of the Williamsburg Rotary Club. He was a member of the Williamsburg-James City Council Medical Society and served on the first board of directors for the Hospice of Williamsburg. He taught the first group of Emergency Medical Technicians in Williamsburg. He was a former director of public health for James City County, York County and Williamsburg in Virginia.
"Survivors are his wife; two daughters, Linda Hollin of Williamsburg and Margaret Crispell of State College, PA; one sister, Jane Wilson Bell of Hastings; six grandchildren; and one great grandchild."
In October 1922 Gordon, when he was age nine, had what was then diagnosed as meningitis, but his sister Jane (a nurse) wrote in 1990 that she thinks it really was polio.
Gordon was a physician. For many years he was an emergency room physician at the hospital in Williamsburg, VA. After retirement he volunteered some medical mission service to a very remote mission among natives in South America. Gordon and Frances lived at their home in Williamsburg for many years, from before 1975 and still Frances was still there in mid-2002.
Gordon and Frances were married at Franklin Street Methodist Church in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Gordon had always been a Presbyterian until he moved to Williamsburg, but there he joined the Bruton Episcopal Church because it had an excellent choir, and he wanted to be in that choir. He loved singing in it. Gordon later was confined to a nursing home where he suffered with Alzheimer's disease, not knowing people, and dying Wednesday, October 20, 1999.
This is the obituary printed in The Hastings Tribune, Hastings, Nebraska: "Former Hastings resident Gordon D. Bell, 86, died Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1999, in Williamsburg, Va.
"Services were Oct. 23 at Bruton Parish Episcopal Church in Williamsburg. Burial was in Williamsburg Memorial Park. Bucktrout of Williamsburg Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
"Mr. Bell was born to Oliver Perry and Alice Gray Bell in Ord. He and his family later moved to Hastings and he graduated from college there. He then graduated from medical school at the University of Nebraska, where he completed his residency and internship. In 1946 he married Frances Tomb. He practiced general surgery in Johnstown, PA., and surgery at State General Hospital in Nanticoke, PA. After entering private practice in Kingston, PA, he worked with Nesbitt Memorial Hospital and Nanticoke State General Hospital. While he was director of American Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he helped victims of Hurricane Agnes in Luzerne County, where he also was civil defense director. After the 1972 flood, he and his family moved to Williamsburg. He was the first full-time emergency room emergency room doctor at Williamsburg Community Hospital. He retired in 1983 and spent time in Guatemala as a medical missionary through the Episcopal Church.
"He was a former member of the Masonic Lodge in Lincoln (Nebraska) and in Kingston, PA. He also was a former member of the Kinstron Rotary Club, of which he was president, and a member of the Williamsburg Rotary Club. He was a member of the Williamsburg-James City Council Medical Society and served on the first board of directors for the Hospice of Williamsburg. He taught the first group of Emergency Medical Technicians in Williamsburg. He was a former director of public health for James City County, York County and Williamsburg in Virginia.
"Survivors are his wife; two daughters, Linda Hollin of Williamsburg and Margaret Crispell of State College, PA; one sister, Jane Wilson Bell of Hastings; six grandchildren; and one great grandchild."
Gordon was a physician. For many years he was an emergency room physician at the hospital in Williamsburg, VA. After retirement he volunteered some medical mission service to a very remote mission among natives in South America. Gordon and Frances lived at their home in Williamsburg for many years, from before 1975 and still Frances was still there in mid-2002.
Gordon and Frances were married at Franklin Street Methodist Church in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Gordon had always been a Presbyterian until he moved to Williamsburg, but there he joined the Bruton Episcopal Church because it had an excellent choir, and he wanted to be in that choir. He loved singing in it. Gordon later was confined to a nursing home where he suffered with Alzheimer's disease, not knowing people, and dying Wednesday, October 20, 1999.
This is the obituary printed in The Hastings Tribune, Hastings, Nebraska: "Former Hastings resident Gordon D. Bell, 86, died Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1999, in Williamsburg, Va.
"Services were Oct. 23 at Bruton Parish Episcopal Church in Williamsburg. Burial was in Williamsburg Memorial Park. Bucktrout of Williamsburg Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
"Mr. Bell was born to Oliver Perry and Alice Gray Bell in Ord. He and his family later moved to Hastings and he graduated from college there. He then graduated from medical school at the University of Nebraska, where he completed his residency and internship. In 1946 he married Frances Tomb. He practiced general surgery in Johnstown, PA., and surgery at State General Hospital in Nanticoke, PA. After entering private practice in Kingston, PA, he worked with Nesbitt Memorial Hospital and Nanticoke State General Hospital. While he was director of American Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he helped victims of Hurricane Agnes in Luzerne County, where he also was civil defense director. After the 1972 flood, he and his family moved to Williamsburg. He was the first full-time emergency room emergency room doctor at Williamsburg Community Hospital. He retired in 1983 and spent time in Guatemala as a medical missionary through the Episcopal Church.
"He was a former member of the Masonic Lodge in Lincoln (Nebraska) and in Kingston, PA. He also was a former member of the Kinstron Rotary Club, of which he was president, and a member of the Williamsburg Rotary Club. He was a member of the Williamsburg-James City Council Medical Society and served on the first board of directors for the Hospice of Williamsburg. He taught the first group of Emergency Medical Technicians in Williamsburg. He was a former director of public health for James City County, York County and Williamsburg in Virginia.
"Survivors are his wife; two daughters, Linda Hollin of Williamsburg and Margaret Crispell of State College, PA; one sister, Jane Wilson Bell of Hastings; six grandchildren; and one great grandchild."
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