Norma M. Bell

Ms. Bell, a Memphis native, graduated in 1951 from Southwestern at Memphis (currently known as Rhodes College) where she majored in music with a focus on piano. Ms. Bell taught piano in Memphis the year following her graduation. During her time at college, she met her future husband, Gus K. Bell. In 1952, the couple married and moved to Knoxville Tennessee where her husband entered a doctorial graduate program in clinical psychology at the University of Tennessee. Following his 1956 graduation, the couple moved to Nashville where they raised their three children. Ms. Bell and her husband were charter and active members of Brookmeade Congregational Church-UCC. Ms. Bell played and composed music during much of her life. She volunteered for many years in the library at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum. She and her husband traveled extensively and enjoyed ballroom dancing.

Ms. Bell is survived by her daughter, Linda Bell, and granddaughter, Christina Bell, of Franklin, and her son, Jeff Bell, (Jim) of Bellingham, Washington.

Ms. Bell is preceded in death by her husband; her eldest daughter, Ellen Bell; her brothers, Harry, Warren, and William Maddox; her mother, Lena Gertrude Maddox and her father, Isaac Harry Maddox.

Visitation will be held Monday, October 9 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Woodlawn Roesch-Patton Funeral Home, 660 Thompson Lane, Nashville, TN. Funeral services will be conducted at 1p.m. Monday, October 9th Nashville, TN 37203. WOODLAWN ROESCH-PATTON, 615-383-4754. A Dignity Memorial provider.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.Woodlawn-Roesch-PattonFH.com for the Bell family.