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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., November 3, 1939, page 2

E.T. BELL

Earl Thompson Bell was born to Ellen Thompson and James Benjamin Bell in 1879 at Dwight, Illinois. He attended school in Dwight and at the age of 17 years moved to Chicago where he worked for fifteen years and where he still has many friends made during those years.
His next move was to White Salmon were he engaged in apple raising until the World War. At that time he worked at ship building in Portland, and returned to Mountain Brook in 1920, where he and his brother, James Bell, were in the lumber business for several years.
In 1933, he married Mrs. Maude Willis of Phoenix, Arizona.
Throughout his life he had been subject to throat trouble of one sort or another, culminating in an operation for goitre twelve years ago. In July last he again had to undergo an operation, which proved that his trouble was too serious to overcome.
On the last day of his life he was able to go from his home to White Salmon and enter a Nursing home, after a visit to the doctor. He never knew he was suffering from cancer. Death claimed him while he slept on Sunday morning, October 29th.
He has always been of a highly sociable and benevolent nature and has made many friends in his business contacts as well as through membership in the Grange, Community club, P.T.A. and church.
After a resident of thirty years, he will be greatly missed in this community.
Surviving him are his widow, a sister, Mrs. Elbert Moffett, and two brothers, Chadwick Bell, of Chicago, and J.B. Bell, of Snowden.