Helen Marie Bell, 98, formerly of Fairfield, passed away Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, in the Hosparus Inpatient Care Unit in Louisville. Marie was born Nov. 16, 1923, in Fairfield to the late Earl and Bela Landrum Brookshire. She was a retired cook for the Holiday House Restaurant. She loved to shop and gardening in her flowers.
She never met a stranger, loved people and her family very much. She was a member of the Little Union Baptist Church where she was a former Sunday School teacher.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Billy Frank Bell; a sister Betty Earl Johnson; and a brother, Russell Brookshire.
She is survived by two daughters, Billy Marie Cheek, of Bardstown, and Mary Lynn Cross, of Shepherdsville; a son Frankie (Vicki) Bell, of Bardstown; eight grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and several great-great grandchildren.
The funeral will be 2 p.m. Tuesday Dec. 21, at Houghlin Funeral Home in Bloomfield with Brother Will Sipes officiating. Interment will be in St. Michael Catholic Church Cemetery in Fairfield.
Helen Marie Bell, 98, formerly of Fairfield, passed away Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, in the Hosparus Inpatient Care Unit in Louisville. Marie was born Nov. 16, 1923, in Fairfield to the late Earl and Bela Landrum Brookshire. She was a retired cook for the Holiday House Restaurant. She loved to shop and gardening in her flowers.
She never met a stranger, loved people and her family very much. She was a member of the Little Union Baptist Church where she was a former Sunday School teacher.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Billy Frank Bell; a sister Betty Earl Johnson; and a brother, Russell Brookshire.
She is survived by two daughters, Billy Marie Cheek, of Bardstown, and Mary Lynn Cross, of Shepherdsville; a son Frankie (Vicki) Bell, of Bardstown; eight grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and several great-great grandchildren.
The funeral will be 2 p.m. Tuesday Dec. 21, at Houghlin Funeral Home in Bloomfield with Brother Will Sipes officiating. Interment will be in St. Michael Catholic Church Cemetery in Fairfield.
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