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Rose W. Bell was born April 13, 1907 at Ayrshire, Iowa, the daughter of John and Katherine (Brattmiller) Bell.

At the age of ten months, she moved with her family to their homestead sixteen miles northeast of Scenic in February 1908. She received her elementary education in a one room rural school, District #48 on Quinn Table, walking four miles to school. She attended Scenic High School and graduated in 1926. After attending a summer at Black Hills Teachers College she taught her first year (1926-1927) north of Wall at Pleasant Hill #51. The following thirty-two years she taught in and around Scenic, retiring in 1965.

In the 1970’s Rose and her brother Hank Bell moved from Scenic to Hot Springs, where they lived until Hank’s death in 1990. She then moved to Rapid City and lived for a short time with her niece, Eva Marsh. The following year she resided with a great-nephew, Butch Pipal before moving into Prairie Village Apartments in 1995.

Rose was an avid reader, loved working crossword puzzles and hunting rocks with her friends.

Rose is survived by a nephew Leo Marsh of Spearfish; two nieces Dorothy Davidson of Caulfield, Missouri and Eva Marsh of New Underwood; several great-nieces and nephews; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Rose was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Bert, Fritz, and Hank Bell; and two sisters Mattie Marsh and Lizzie Pipal.

Rose W. Bell, age 95, of Wall, South Dakota died Saturday, January 18, 2003 at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home in New Underwood, South Dakota.

Graveside services will be held at a later date at the Scenic Cemetery.

Rush Funeral Chapel of Wall is in charge of arrangements.

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