George Earl Bell
George Earl Bell was born c1892 in Tennessee (as listed on Ruth Bell's birth certificate).
He married Ethel Ruth Owens.
They had the following child:
Ruth Elinor, born May 10, 1929
Stella Owens Dunaway, who is Ethel Bell's younger sister, stated that her memory of George was
that he was a kindly, quiet man with dark hair and medium height. She remembered that he was
mis-diagnosed as having tuberculosis (he actually had cancer), and was sent to a TB clinic in
northern California. He later left the clinic to return home to Rio Vista. Stella said the she
clearly remembers him walking down the street towards Ethel's house (Stella happened to be in
California from her home in Texas for a visit. She was a teenage girl at the time). *
George Earl Bell died c1935 in Rio Vista, California.
*Source: Stella Dunaway, orally to Sharon Lee Shannon and Paul Sumner, May 25,
1998.
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