Transcribed by Stephen Carroll Pearsall Raymond Bell, Sr., Prominent Pender Figure, Succumbs at 79  Raymond Bell, Sr., native of Pender County, and a prominent figure throughout this area, succumbed at his home Thursday evening at six o’clock, following several months of illness.  Funeral service were conducted from the Burgaw Methodist Church Saturday at 3:00 p.m.,… (read more)