Laura S. Bell

In loving memory of a wonderful person. We will love you and miss you always. My life is more treasured because of your unique way of thinking and David's sense of humor.

I am saddened to learn, just today, Oct. 1, 2022, of the death of Laura Bell. I had known her, and her late husband, Dave, since 1952, when I was a freshman at Brown University, and, in exchange for her home-cooked meals, occasionally baby-sat the Bell's first-born, Joshua. Although through the intervening years I did not see them often, I kept in occasional touch, and always visited them the few times I returned to Providence for a college reunion. I was saddened when Dave made his...

I have wonderful memories of Laura when I became an assistant to David back in the 90's, as he was incapacitated to a degree, with Parkinson's.
I was a blessed to be a part of their family until his death in 1996.
I learned so much about the Jewish faith when I accompanied them a few times to the synagogue.
It was a "river" deep and flowing of a history that I feel everyone should learn. It gave me a deeper understanding that I would not have known otherwise, but for being...