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Bell, Ruth
Funeral services for Ruth Bell, 84, of Tipton, who passed away Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at Mercy Iowa City, will be 10 a.m. Saturday, March 20, at Fry Funeral Home, Tipton. Pastor Dan Merchant will officiate. A visitation will take place Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be at Tipton Masonic Cemetery.
Ruth Eleanor Eilers was born April 16, 1925, on the family farm in rural Tipton, Iowa. She was the youngest of four daughters born to August and Martha Penningroth Eilers. Besides her parents, her oldest sister, Vera Agne, and next sister, Bernice Meinholdt, are deceased. Remaining is her sister, Marie Shaull of Tipton.
She graduated from Tipton Consolidated School in 1942 and Chillicothe Business College of Chillicothe, Mo. Ruth Eleanor married Keith Eddie Bell on June 6, 1946, and was the mother of five children: Jerry Bell, now deceased, father of Brian and Brent from Missouri, and Brad from Tennessee; Eddie and Gerianne Bell from Indiana, parents of Glen, Tony, Josh and Jody; Catherine and Dave Cronin from Michigan, parents of Jennifer and Amy; Paul and Lisa Bell from Pennsylvania; and Jon and Harriette Bell from rural Tipton, parents of Austin. They are the grandparents of 12 great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Baptist Children's Home in memory of Ruth.
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