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A Celebration of Glenn Bell’s Life, age 96, of Pineland, was held Friday, May 3, 2024 at Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home Chapel in Jasper, burial with military honors followed at Lone Star Cemetery in McElroy just south of Pineland. Glenn Louis Bell slipped peacefully from this earthly plane, surrounded by family in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 27 in San Augustine, not far from his birthplace in Pineland. Glenn was born at home on Cherry Street on October 24, 1927 to Mae and Louis Bell, who was a longtime employee of Temple Lumber Co. He completed all years of schooling in Pineland, where he was an honor student, played saxophone in the Pineland High School Band, starred on the Pineland Indians basketball team and graduated with academic honors as class valedictorian in 1944.