Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Thursday, July 24, 1980

BELL, MRS. LAVERNE BECK

Died at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, 1980, at Hood Memorial Hospital, Amite. She was 52, a native of Hebert and a resident of Amite.

Visiting at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 2:40 p.m. Friday. Religious services at First Southern Methodist Church, Amite, at 3 p.m. Friday. Burial in Hebert Cemetery, Columbia, at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Survived by her husband, Rev. John D. Bell, Amite; a son, Rev. Perry Bell, Sheboygan Falls, Wis.; a daughter, Mrs. Jimmy (Dixie) Cook, Plain Dealing; mother, Mrs. Trudy Beck, West Monroe; five grandchildren.