Carmelo Bell
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Carmelo (Campanella) Bell passed away in El Paso, Texas on Sunday, March 27, at University Medical Center in El Paso, Texas.
Services were held at St. Matthew's Church in El Paso, and his remains were interned at Ft. Bliss Cemetery on March 31.
Bell was the eldest son of Salvatore Campanella and Giuseppa Lo Vecchio. The Campanellas were a typical Southern Illinois coal mining family from the old country. His father and six uncles immigrated from Monreale, Sicily before World War I, working the mines near Du Quoin, Ziegler and Orient.
Bell was born Sept. 15, 1923, in Du Quoin, Illinois. He was a football player and letterman at Du Quoin High School before enlisting in World War II. He was a career soldier and U.S. Army Staff Sergeant with service in World War II, Korea and Viet Nam.
He later worked as a health inspector for the county and city of El Paso, Texas.
He married Anita Corral in 1949; the couple had three children, Shirley Hooker, James Bell and Susan Wesley.
Bell is survived by his wife, three children, five grandchildren, Anita Ray, Carl, Cecilia Ashley, Calvin and Carl Joshua, one great grandson James Brining, and a sister Marie Bell Dorris of Ridgefield, Connecticut.