CHARLES F. BELL ’40

CHARLES F. BELL, a retired pharmacist, died Jan. 20, 2015. He was 96. A member of Psi Upsilon, he was the brother of Albert M. Bell of the class of 1935, the nephew of Harry W. Bell of the class of 1912, and the cousin of Warren F. Bell of the class of 1943. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Previously the president of Bell and Halpern Pharmacy, Inc., after his retirement he became the outpatient pharmacist at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, N.Y. Predeceased by his first wife, Castine Swanson Bell, and by a daughter, his wife of 32 years, Bess Herdt Bell, survives, as do two children, two step-children, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.