MRS. HERMIE V. BELL
Whitesboro - Mrs. Hermie Venus Bell, 72, of Collinsville, died Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Collinsville Care Home, after an extended illness.
Before moving to Collinsville, she had been a resident of the Ethel community for 50 years.  She was born in Ethel July 3, 1900, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Tarpley.  She married Raymond D. Bell Aug. 31, 1918 in Collinsville, and was a member of the Church of Christ.
Services will be conducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Richards Funeral Home Chapel.  Tommie Shaver of Fort Worth and Vallen Graham of Sherman will officiate, followed by burial in Collinsville Cemetery.
Survivors are her husband; one son, R.D. Bell of Sherman; three daughters, Mmes. Johnny Vannoy of Collinsville, Edwin Durden of Sherman and Wayne Gillum of Pilot Point; two sisters, Mmes. Clarence Patterson of Houston and Charley Hough of Crowell; 16 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and several nieces and nephews.
The family will be at the funeral home tonight from 7 to 8:30 o'clock.

RAYMOND D. BELL
Collinsville - Services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Richards Chapel, Whitesboro, for Raymond Dewey Bell, 74, retired Collinsville farmer who died Sunday in a Sherman hospital.  Tommie Shaver of Fort Worth and Vallen Graham of Sherman will officiate.  Burial will be in Collinsville Cemetery.
Mr. Bell was born Sept. 24, 1898, in Grayson County, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Bell.  He married Hermie V. Tarpley Aug. 31, 1918, in Collinsville.  He was a member of the Church of Christ.
Survivors include a son, R.D. Bell of Sherman; daughters, Mrs. Johnny Vannoy of Collinsville, Mrs. Edwin Durden of Sherman and Mrs. Wayne Gillum of Pilot Point; brothers, Luther Bell of Tioga, Cecil Bell of Truth or Consequences, N.M., Cabel Bell of Dallas and C.O. Bell of Lawton, Okla.; sisters, Mrs. Florence Bradley and Mrs. Cora Neilan, both of Dallas, and Mrs. Jewel Wheless of Sherman; 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.