Velma Pauline Carr Bell was born into the family of Walter and Caldonia Carr in Pope county, Arkansas on June 26, 1928. Pauline had nine siblings; Ira, Hays, Willard, Henry, Ray, Ruby, Walsie, Roxie, and Mary Lou. She is survived by her husband of 70 years, Cleo C. Bell of Valley Springs, CA and by her sister, Mary Lou Parks of Marshall, AR. She will be greatly missed by her four sons and their families; Ken and Paula Bell of Modesto, CA, Tony Bell of Modesto, CA, Dan Bell and Erika Coon of South Lake Tahoe, CA, and Dennis and Mary Bell of Sugar Land, TX; nine grandchildren and ten great grandchildren, along with a large number of nieces and nephews, and many friends and neighbors.

Both Cleo and Pauline were born and raised in extreme rural Arkansas on homestead-style family farms. They developed an early and life-long appreciation for hard work and the value of family. Pauline always enjoyed the activities that were modeled in her family; cooking and canning, hunting and fishing, quilting and sewing, and “homemade” music. While being a mother of four, she earned a nursing diploma and was employed as a nurse from 1966 through 1991. She and Cleo moved to Valley Springs to live in 1990 where she continued to do the things she loved with people that she loved and was active in the First Missionary Baptist Church. Pauline passed to glory with her family by her side on August 31, 2018.