(January 7, 1908-May 24, 2004)

HEUVELTON--Veda Bell, 96, Dollar Road, died Monday in Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center Residential Health Care Facility, Ogdensburg, where she had resided since May 6.

Mrs. Bell taught a year at a rural school on McAdoo Road in Rensselaer Falls. Following her marriage, she and her husband lived in the Heuvelton area, operating a dairy farm on Dollar Road for many years.

Born Jan. 7, 1908 in Rensselaer Falls, daughter of Van and Imogene Jenkins McAdoo, she attended school in Rensselaer Falls and Norwood and graduated from Syracuse High School.

She married Maurice James Bell on March 11, 1931, in Madrid. He died May 23, 1977.

She was a member of the Heuvelton Presbyterian Church and United Presbyterian Women and a 50-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star. She enjoyed baking, crocheting, doing calligraphy and making latch-hook rugs.

Surviving are two sons and their wives, Allen and Nancy, Heuvelton, and Lawrence and Kathy, Green Bay, Wis.; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Lorna Bell, Ogdensburg, Barbara and Vernon Tapper, Dublin, Calif., and Mary and Ronald Denny, Heuvelton; a daughter-in-law, Cindy Bell, Morley, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Two sons, David and Donald, and a brother, Lorne McAdoo, died before her.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Fox-McLellen Funeral Home, Ogdensburg, with the Rev. Karl Warrington officiating. Burial will be in Rensselaer Falls Cemetery. Calling hours will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Donations may be made to the Richard E. Winter Cancer Treatment Center.

(From the Tuesday, May 25, 2004 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page D7).