HUGH CONKLIN BELL

HUGH CONKLIN BELL of Shenandoah, IA died June 2, 2022 at the age of 98. He was a licensed funeral director in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Arizona for fifty-five years. During 1967-1968 Bell volunteered to be a civilian mortician under the Department of the Army, Mortuary Service. He was then assigned to the Air Base Saigon, Vietnam where he gave care to 836 casualties so they could be returned home for burial.