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Notes for H. Craig BELL
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - March 1, 2002
Deceased Name: H. Craig Bell
90, of North Wales, a retired psychiatrist and an instructor in psychiatry and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, died at Abington Memorial Hospital on Tuesday of complications from pulmonary disease.
Dr. Bell maintained an office in Abington from 1960 to 1995 and was on the staff of Abington Memorial Hospital from 1944 to 1977. He was an instructor at Penn from 1940 to 1969.
He was raised in Glenolden and graduated first in his class from Glen-Nor High School in 1930. He earned an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, working his way through school as a car salesman, painter and newspaper reporter.
He served his internship at Bryn Mawr Hospital and his residency at Friends Hospital.
After joining the staff of Abington Memorial Hospital in the 1940s, he established the Functional Unit there, a separate floor for psychiatric patients.
He was on the staff of several other hospitals, including Jeanes, Chestnut Hill, North Penn, and Underwood-Memorial Hospital in New Jersey, and maintained an office for a time in Glassboro.
In the 1950s, when his doctor advised him to get more exercise, he and his wife, Gertrude Mitchell Bell, took up square dancing.
His daughter, Barbara Jeanne Seely, said that every month for more than 30 years, her parents and a group of friends would dosido and swing partners on the second floor of the garage at their home in Wyncote. "The men wore bolo ties, and the women wore wide skirts," she said.
In 1987, the couple moved to Neshaminy Falls, a retirement community in North Wales. Dr. Bell was president of the homeowners' association there in 1989.
He was a member of the marriage tribunal of the Diocese of Camden in the 1980s and 1990s. He was on the board of Jeanes Hospital and was former president of the Montgomery County Medical Society and was past editor of the Mongomery County Medical Bulletin. He was a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and was a member of the Rotary Club of Jenkintown.
In addition to his daughter and wife, to whom he was married for 61 years, he is survived by a son, Harry; two other daughters, Carol Anne Mosher and Barbara Lynne Erskine; a brother; and four grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. April 7 at Gwynedd Friends Meeeting, Route 202 and Sumneytown Pike, Upper Gwynnedd. Burial will be private.
Memorial contributions may be made to Jeanes Hospital, 7600 Central Ave., Philadelphia 19111.
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