Rachel Bell

RACHEL A. BELL

Rachel Llene Aldridge Bell, 91, of Columbus, MS passed away, peacefully with her family by her bedside Sunday, November 28, 2021, at Windsor Place.

Visitation will be Wednesday, December 1, 2021, at 10:30 AM at Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home and Crematory, College Street location, with Brother Donald Parker officiating.  Interment will be at Woodlawn Cemetery, Steens, MS.

Mrs. Bell was born May 9, 1930 in Millport, AL to the late Wyman and Maudie Aldridge. She married Earl D. Bell, March 1949, lived on the family farm in Caledonia, MS and together they raised three children, and later moved to Columbus, MS.  Mrs. Bell was a homemaker until her children were of school age when she was employed with Glenn Manufacturing for many years at the Caledonia location where she worked as a line supervisor.  Later she was employed with Columbus Butane Company where she was an account manager until she retired.  She was a member of Sulphur Springs Primitive Baptist Church.

Mrs. Bell was preceded in death by her husband of forty years, Earl D. Bell, brothers Charles Aldridge, Edward Aldridge, Rayford Aldridge, and sister Nona Raye Burleson, her parents Wyman and Maudie Aldridge, and step-grandson Jeffery S. Gore.

Mrs. Bell is survived by her daughters, Martha (Larry) Chappell of Steens, MS, Glenda Vaughan, of Northport, AL, and son Roger (Shelve) Bell of Bella Collina, FL, brother, Denzil Aldridge, Fernbank, AL, grandchildren Susan (Michael) Akin of Madison, MS; Byron (Kristi) Culpepper, of Pelham, AL; Caron (Michael) Byrd, of Caledonia, MS; Brandon (Leah) Vaughan, of Logan, UT; Brooke (Russell) Hill, of Northport, AL; and fourteen great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews, all of whom she dearly loved.

Pallbearers will be her nephews, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren; Mike Aldridge, Charles Aldridge, Jr., Dennis Aldridge, Bryon Culpepper, Brandon Vaughan, Michael Akin, Matthew Byrd, Owen Byrd, Alex Akin.

Honorary Pallbearers are Walt and Brenda Willis; Don Calloway, the Edmondson family, and former employees of Columbus Butane.  A special recognition to the management and staff of Arrington Assisted Living and Windsor Place of Columbus, MS.

Memorials may be made to:

American Cancer Society

P.O.  Box 22478

Oklahoma City, OK 73123