Dennis D. Bell

Dr. Den­nis D. Bell passed away Tues­day, August 28, 2012, at his home in Pine­hurst, North Car­olina sur­rounded by his family.

Dr Bell was a World War II vet­eran, an edu­ca­tor and coach and retired as pres­i­dent of East Strouds­burg Uni­ver­sity in Pennsylvania.

Dr. Bell was foot­ball, bas­ket­ball and base­ball coach at Card­ing­ton High School from 1947 when foot­ball was estab­lished at the school until 1958. While liv­ing in Card­ing­ton, he was active in the com­mu­nity includ­ing the Rotary Club.

He returned to Card­ing­ton through the years to attend dif­fer­ent events. He is sur­vived by his wife of 41 years, Car­netta B. Bell, their daugh­ter Denise Graner and her hus­band, Wes Graner, (Holden, Cay­den and Lan­den) of Pine­hurst, North Car­olina; and their son, Brian Bell and his wife, Jen­nifer Bell (Ben­jamin and Lil­lian) of Apex, North Car­olina. He is also sur­vived by his sis­ter, Car­olyn Spicer and his chil­dren Roger Bell, Mary Lou Gov­ela and Robert Bell.

A cel­e­bra­tion of life ser­vice with full mil­i­tary hon­ors was held at 3:30 pm on August 30 at the Pine­hurst United Methodist Church in Pine­hurst, North Car­olina with Pas­tor David Beam offi­ci­at­ing. The fam­ily received friends fol­low­ing the service.

In lieu of flow­ers, memo­r­ial con­tri­bu­tions may be made to The Wounded War­rior Project at www.woundedwarriorproject.org.

Boles Funeral Home is assist­ing the family.

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