Obituaries

Jean Bell Alexandria Teacher

Jean Bell, 101, who worked as a nursery school teacher for many years in Alexandria, died June 10 at Goodwin House Baileys Crossroads. She had congestive heart disease.

Mrs. Bell taught 4-year-olds at what is now St. Paul's Nursery School and Day School in Alexandria from 1954 until her retirement in 1975.

She was born Jean Watson in Mobile, Ala., and raised in Richmond. She worked at a Richmond brokerage firm before settling in Alexandria in 1941.

Her memberships included St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria, the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Alexandria Hospital auxiliary called the Twig, where she was involved in organizing charitable fundraising activities.

She studied French and enjoyed traveling to countries such as England, France, the United Arab Emirates and Nigeria.

She moved to Goodwin House in 1994.

Her husband of 59 years, William Bell, died in 1994. A daughter, Jean Nakhleh, died in 2007.

Survivors include two daughters, Julia Bell of Newton, Mass., and Virginia Jenkins of Great Falls; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

-- Rebekah Davis

Clownie E. Wallace Letter Carrier, Archer

Clownie Estle Wallace, 61, a retired letter carrier in Montgomery County who was a nationally ranked amateur archer, died July 2 of metastatic kidney cancer at Bowers Hospice House in Beckley, W.Va. He lived in Germantown before moving to Shady Spring, W.Va., two years ago.