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1	1	H.R. No. 2705
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4	4	R E S O L U T I O N
5	5	WHEREAS, Family, friends, and former colleagues are mourning
6	6	the loss of veteran Texas newspaperman Charles Raymond Bell, Jr.,
7	7	of Waxahachie, who died on March 5, 2009, at the age of 77; and
8	8	WHEREAS, A native of Waco, Ray Bell began his career in
9	9	journalism at the age of 16, when he graduated from high school and
10	10	began a full-time job with the Hillsboro Daily Mirror; he started as
11	11	an assistant sports editor but was soon promoted to sports editor;
12	12	he also took on the job of writing about local engagements,
13	13	weddings, and parties and eventually was given responsibility for
14	14	the entire paper; and
15	15	WHEREAS, Picking up a college education piecemeal between
16	16	jobs, Mr. Bell was a journalist for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,
17	17	the Temple Daily Telegram, the Charlotte Observer, the Waco
18	18	Tribune-Herald, the Dallas Times Herald, and the Fort Worth Press;
19	19	and
20	20	WHEREAS, He spent an exceptional 20 years with the Dallas
21	21	Morning News, where his work in the newsroom earned him the respect
22	22	of his editors and colleagues; he could handle myriad
23	23	responsibilities, and he received numerous awards, including ones
24	24	for his firsthand report of surviving a heart attack in the paper's
25	25	parking lot in 1983; and
26	26	WHEREAS, Mr. Bell also worked for the Associated Press in
27	27	Atlanta, sold articles to national magazines, such as The Saturday
28	28	Evening Post and Vanity Fair, and published six books, including
29	29	The Hiroshima Pilot, which he coauthored with William Bradford
30	30	Huie; he taught journalism part-time at El Centro College in Dallas
31	31	and worked in public relations; and
32	32	WHEREAS, Well past his retirement from full-time newspaper
33	33	work, Mr. Bell carried on as a journalist, and he covered local high
34	34	school football games even as his health began to fail, until about
35	35	a year before his death; and
36	36	WHEREAS, Ray Bell's veins ran with printer's ink for 60 years
37	37	as he pursued the trade he loved, and though his final late edition
38	38	has been put to bed, memories of the gentle nature and colorful
39	39	personality of this old-style journalist will remain to comfort all
40	40	those who knew and loved him; now, therefore, be it
41	41	RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas
42	42	Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Charles Raymond Bell,
43	43	Jr., and extend sincere condolences to the members of his family: to
44	44	his wife, Barbara Bell; to his sons, Ray Bell III, Don Shaw, and
45	45	Kevin Shaw and his wife, Marsha; to his daughter, Monica Prater, and
46	46	her husband, Richard; to his five grandchildren and one
47	47	great-grandchild; and to his other relatives and friends; and, be
48	48	it further
49	49	RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
50	50	prepared for his family and that when the Texas House of
51	51	Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Ray Bell.
52	52	Pitts
53	53	______________________________
54	54	Speaker of the House
55	55	I certify that H.R. No. 2705 was unanimously adopted by a
56	56	rising vote of the House on May 31, 2009.
57	57	______________________________
58	58	Chief Clerk of the House