The Prophetstown Echo  -October 10, 2006

Nancy C. Bell

            Nancy C. Bell, 67 of Erie died Monday, October 2, 2006 at home after a brief illness.  Private family services will be held.  Burial will be in Erie Cemetery.  Memorials may be made to the Rock River Valley Hospice.  Gibson Funeral Home, Erie is in charge of arrangements.

            The former Nancy Carol Jacobs was born October 16, 1938 in the Erie area, the daughter of Elmer “Bunk” and Ruby Brooks Jacobs.  She married Frank Bell on January 29, 1988 in Rock Island.  She had been employed at General Electric, Morrison and in the Dietary Department at Hammond Henry Hospital, Geneseo.  She enjoyed gardening and watching animals in the natural habitat.

            Survivors include her husband, Children and their spouses Tim and Bonnie Greenwood, Prophetstown, Kristine Edwards, Erie, Donna Gibson, Erie, Beth and Robert Lauitzen, Prophetstown, Frank Jr. and Holly Bell, Moline and Steve Bell, Moline, 10 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren, a brother, Robert Jacobs, Erie, a sister, Ellen Henry, Atkinson and a sister-in-law, Linda Jacobs, Erie.  She was preceded in death by a grandson, David Edwards, her parents, brothers, Percy Jacobs, and Elmer “Johnny” Jacobs, Jr. and a sister-in-law, Maryann Jacobs.