June 2, 2003 - Washington Post: Peace Corps Staffer Paul C. Bell Jr. dies in DC
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June 2, 2003 - Washington Post: Peace Corps Staffer Paul C. Bell Jr. dies in DC
Peace Corps Staffer Paul C. Bell Jr. dies in DC
Read and comment on this obituary from the Washinton Post on Peace Corps Staffer Paul C. Bell Jr. who died in Washington DC on May 16, 2993. Mr. Bell worked for the Peace Corps in Latin America in the mid-1960s, then returned to the Peace Corps in 1977, serving as regional director for Latin American and Caribbean programs. Read the story at:
Paul C. Bell Jr. AID Adviser*
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Paul C. Bell Jr. AID Adviser
Paul C. Bell Jr., 74, who had worked for the Agency for International Development since 1983, died May 16 in San Jose, Costa Rica, after surgery for a heart ailment. He maintained homes in Costa Rica and Alexandria.
At the time of his death, Mr. Bell was senior adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean for AID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. He also served as Americas region chairman of the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group of the United Nations.
He had worked for private and public groups furnishing humanitarian aid to Latin America for 50 years. He helped direct disaster relief programs in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and helped train more than 32,000 workers in Latin America.
Caption: Mr. Bell worked for the Peace Corps in Latin America in the mid-1960s, then returned to the Peace Corps in 1977, serving as regional director for Latin American and Caribbean programs.
Mr. Bell, a graduate of Baylor University, received a master's degree at Southwestern Theological Seminary in his native Texas. He was ordained by the Southern Baptist Convention and began his work in Latin America as a missionary with the church's foreign mission board, serving in Central America and Colombia.
He worked for the Peace Corps in Latin America in the mid-1960s, then became vice president of the Inter-American Foundation in 1971. He returned to the Peace Corps in 1977, serving as regional director for Latin American and Caribbean programs. He worked for the State Department and as a project manager for a UN Pan Caribbean Disaster Preparedness and Prevention project before joining AID.
His wife of 49 years, Carolyn Crunk Bell, died in 1999. A daughter, Terrye Ann Bell, died in 1964.
Survivors include five children, Ellen Bell Lynch of Watertown, Mass., Paul L. Bell of Rileyville, Va., Jeanne Bell McMorrow of Freeport, Maine, Susan Bell Gaitan of Falls Church and David C. Bell of Sterling; three sisters; and eight grandchildren.
More about Paul C. Bell from his Friends in Chile
Read this remembrance of Paul C. Bell and the work that he did in Disaster Management from the Chilean Fire Fighters Association at:
Paul C. Bell
Lamentable pérdida
Falleció
Paul C. Bell
Coordinador de OFDA para América Latina
Tenemos el sentimiento de comunicar el fallecimiento del Sr. Paul C. Bell, Coordinador Regional para América Latina y El Caribe de OFDA, y Presidente del Grupo de las Américas del INSARAG, señor Paul C. Bell.
Paul Bell, quien falleció sorpresivamente de un infarto al corazón, fue un hombre de una destacada trayectoria en la OFDA (Oficina de Asistencia para Desastres de EE.UU), en Partners of América y en INSARAG (International Search and Rescue Advisory Group), organismos a través de los cuales siempre demostró una constante preocupación por acrecentar los lazos de cooperación con los Bomberos de Chile.
El Presidente Nacional, Octavio Hinzpeter, hizo llegar a OFDA una carta de condolencias para reflejar el profundo pesar de Bomberos de Chile por la partida de Paul C. Bell.
Octavio Hinzpeter Blumsak, Presidente Nacional de Bomberos de Chile, saluda a la Oficina de Asistencia para Desastres, Coordinación para América Latina y el Caribe, y enterado del sorpresivo deceso del Sr. Paul C. Bell (Q.E.P.D.), Presidente del Grupo de las Américas de INSARAG y Coordinador Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de OFDA, en nombre de Bomberos de Chile y suyo propio, hace llegar a sus colaboradores y distinguida familia, los sinceros sentimiento de aflicción y pésame por esta irreparable pérdida.
Hinzpeter, desea dejar constancia de la constante preocupación que manifestó el ilustre extinto por acrecentar los lazos de cooperación entre las distintas instituciones que atienden la seguridad ante emergencias y desastres en nuestro continente, marco en el cual siempre tuvo particular deferencia para con Bomberos de Chile. Por ello, estamos ciertos de que su gestión es base insustituible para seguir creciendo en integración y coordinación para un mejor resguardo de nuestras comunidades.
Haciendo votos por el eterno descanso del alma de tan destacado dirigente regional de la protección civil, reitero las condolencias desde este Sur del Mundo, donde también sus capacidades fueron conocidas y, sin duda, enriquecieron nuestro acervo institucional.
SANTIAGO, 16 de mayo de 2003.
www.bomberos.cl
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I PRAY LORD JESUS BLESSES HIS LOVE
TO DEAR PAUL C BELL JR, WHO LEFT HIS
BODY BEHIND AND MOVED ON HEAVENLY ABODE.
I AM LOOKING FORWARD VERY EGERLY TO
LOCATE OR BE IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE
OLD FRIENDS, MR LEWIS & MRS LEWIS ,[from chicago] ,WHO SERVED AS AMERICAN PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS IN MY TOWN INDORE-452014 [ M P ] , INDIA, DURING THE YEARS 1967-68. THEY WERE OUR NEIGHBOURS.
IN FACT WE WANT TO INVITE THEM TO
INDORE ON A GREAT RELIGIOUS FUNCTION
AND INTERACT ALSO, REGARDING A SUPPORT
EFFORT, TO US SOLDIERS , NOW OPERATIONAL
IN IRAQ.
OUR SERVICE MISSION IS OF DIVINE NATURE
PARALLEL TO LOVE OF LORD JESUS CHRIST'S
DESIRE AND BRING PEACE , TO PEOPLE
OF IRAQ.
DIVINE EFFORT IS OF ARMY NATURE AND
MAY CALL FOR SACRIFICE OF LIFE, SINCE
IT VALUES THE DIVINE ANGLE.
WITH LOVE AND REGARDS,
AJEET SINGH
FORMERLY MAJOR [INDIAN ARMY ]
