Jean Mackenzie Bell, 82, a resident of Severna Park since 1976, died Sept. 20 at the Se-
verna Park Center, Genesis Eldercare Network, after a series of strokes.

Mrs. Bell was born Sept. 15, 1922, and reared in Pelham, N.Y., as well as New Rochelle, N.Y., where she graduated from high school in 1941. She then attended the Katharine Gibbs School in New York.

Much of her childhood was spent in Salisbury, Conn., at her family's summer cottage on the shores of Twin Lakes. She became an avid sportswoman, who loved the outdoors, swimming and sailing. She developed a lifelong passion for bird watching and gardening.

In 1948 she married Robert C. Bell, who died in 1990. They raised five children while his career took them to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Connecticut and Maryland. In 1976 when Mr. Bell became plant manager and president of Alco Gravure Printers in Glen Burnie, the couple moved to Chartwell in Severna Park.

They were members of the Chartwell Golf and Country Club, where she played tennis and with the ladies' 18-hole group. She also enjoyed bridge and socializing with friends and neighbors.

In recent years she was a resident of Sunrise Assisted Living in Severna Park and then Genesis Eldercare.

Surviving are her children, Robert C. Bell Jr. of New Fairfield, Conn., Philip M. Bell of Pittsburgh, Hazel Bell Scudder of Norwalk, Conn., Douglas E. Bell of New York City and Bradley S. Bell of Severna Park.

Services will be held at noon tomorrow at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, 611 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd., Severna Park. Arrangements are by Barranco and Sons Severna Park Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland, 17 Cypress Creek Road, Severna Park, MD 21146.

As Published in The Capital Newspaper, Annapolis MD on 9/22/2004.