Arthur H. Bell

1922 - 2016

Arthur "Art" Henry Bell, 94, passed away on Sunday, September 4, 2016. Service: 11 a.m. Monday, September 12, at Laurel Land Chapel of Chimes. Visitation: 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, September 11, at Laurel Land Funeral Home. Art was born Jan. 10, 1922, in Lincoln, Texas, to Sam Hughes Bell and Alma Lachmann Bell. Art spent most of his life in Fort Worth. He was a counselor at the Panther Boys Club. He graduated from Paschal High School in 1941 and immediately joined the U.S. Navy. He fought in World War II in the Pacific, including serving as a PBY tail-gunner and performing reconnaissance missions during the Battle of Midway. Soon after returning home at the end of the war in 1945, Art married his sweetheart, Frankie, from Archer City and they made their life and raised their family in Fort Worth. Art had a challenging and rewarding career in the aircraft industry serving as Senior Manufacturing Engineer at General Dynamics and later at Lockheed Martin. He loved baseball, football, fishing, flying aircraft, traveling and gardening. Most of all he loved his family. He was preceded in death by his wife, Frankie Lee Bell; and his three siblings, Jane McCurry of Glendale, Calif., Frieda Thannisch of Fort Worth and James Bell. Survivors: His son, David Arthur Bell and wife, Janet Watson Bell and grandson, Jeremy Bell, all of Clear Lake Shores, Texas; his daughter, Connie Ferguson; his granddaughter, Tracy Zehringer and her husband, Tony Zehringer and two great-grandchildren, Logan and Connor Zehringer, all of Morrow, Ohio; and by his loving nieces and nephews.