Arch Allen Bell, a native of Buda, TX and resident of Thibo-daux, LA, was called to rest on March 7, 2016.
A religious service was held March 12, 2016 at First United Methodist Church in Thibodaux, LA. The burial followed in St. Joseph Cemetery, Thibodaux, LA.
He was a 1950 graduate of Buda High, where he played football for the Bulldogs.
He is survived by his loving wife of 59 years, Mary Margaret Teasley Bell, 1952 graduate of Kyle High School; daughter, Robin Ann Bell; son, Robert Allen Bell; sister, Patricia Bell Audilet; grandchildren, Hayley Bell Smith, Ryan Lee Bowker, Mary Kathryn Szush, Scott Jacob Szush, Jessica Szush Granier, Andrew Warren Szush; sister-in-law Joyce Teasley Lengefeld, and numerous great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
He is preceded in death by his father, Herbert I. Bell and mother, Kathryn Allen Bell Rogers, a longtime teacher in the Buda-Kyle area.
Arch was an Army veteran who served in the Korean Conflict. After an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army, he was instrumental in the offshore oil and gas field development in West Africa, Western Australia, the Middle East, and the North Sea. Once retired he used his creative wood working talent to help his daughter design and build frames for her international art gallery with wood gathered from the South Louisiana bayou area. These frames now hang in homes worldwide. He also loved to follow baseball, particularly the EDW Cardinals, Nicholls Colonels, and LSU Tigers, but most of all; he enjoyed the time spent with the family he loved.
