Susan Elizabeth Bello

Susan Elizabeth Bello, 55, of Chapel Hill, died Sunday, July 6, 2008 after the rapid onset of acute Leukemia a year after battling Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
Susan was born December 17, 1952 to Harold "Lou" Bello and Jacqueline Hutzler. At the age of 20 months, she contracted polio and for the remainder of her life used a long leg brace. She was very active and spirited, the first girl to be president of the student council at Daniels. She remained a lifelong ardent swimmer, hiker, kayaker, and had an impressive range of interests, including music, psychology and literature.
She finished at Needham Broughton and graduated from Duke University in 1974. She then worked at the National Gallery in Washington, DC and at the Library of Congress. She received a Master of Arts from the University of Virginia in 1982 and a Master of Science in Library Science in 1985 from UNC. She worked at MIT as Assistant Acquisition Librarian from 1986-89, returned to North Carolina and worked in the Department of English at Duke from 1990-1996. From there she worked at the Davis Library at UNC until her death.
Susan received the Akers and Kalp Fellowship in the UNC School of Library Science and was elected to Beta Phi Mu.
Susan was a member of the C.G. Jung Society of the Triangle and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
She was preceded in death by her father, Lou Bello and her stepfather, Robert W. Harper, MD.
She is survived by her mother, Jacqueline Harper; her brother and his wife, Tom and Judy Bello; and her brother, Gerry Bello. Also surviving are her stepbrother, Robert Harper, MD, and stepsisters, Billie Harper Buie and her husband, Stephen Buie, MD; and Nellie Sue Harper Potter and her husband, Steven Potter.
She was very close to her eight nieces and nephews, Yeats and wife, Justine Bello, Pierce and Jackie Bello, Sarah, Hannah and Grace Buie, and Jon and Lauren Harper. They will remember her resilience and love of life in the year after her\n> recovery from lymphoma.
A memorial service will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, July 12, 2008 at the Brown-Wynne Funeral Home chapel, 1701 E. Millbrook Road, Raleigh, NC 27609. The family will receive friends immediately following the service at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 401 Harrison Oaks Blvd., Suite 200, Cary, NC 27513; or to the charity of one's choice.
Condolences may be sent to www.brownwynne.com
Arrangements by Brown-Wynne, Millbrook Road.