Johnnie "Jack" Ray Bell of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died early Tuesday morning, November 8, 2011, in the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of 85 years.

Johnnie "Jack" Ray Bell was born on April 29, 1926, in Wichita, Kansas, to John R. and Madge Marie (Sayre) Bell. He grew up and attended elementary school in Wichita, Burns and Hunnewell, Kansas, before moving to Braman where he graduated from Braman High School. He entered the United States Army Air Corps in November of 1944 serving during World War II. He was honorably discharged in October of 1946. Following his discharge he returned to Braman and began working at the Braman First National Bank. On May 31, 1947, he married Coralie "Corky" Miller in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. In 1948 they moved to Blackwell where he worked for the Security Bank and Trust for twenty-nine years. He also worked for the Acme Foundry, Oklahoma Department of Transportation and Electron Corporation before working for the Blackwell Public Schools for twenty years. He coached boys and girls little league baseball and softball and donated many hours of umpiring to these leagues. He spent twenty years as a registered referee for the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activity Association officiating junior high and high school football, basketball and baseball games. He held life memberships in the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars and was president of the veterans organization that planned the Trapp Addition in Blackwell. He also held membership in the First United Methodist Church and Top of Oklahoma Historical Society. Jack served on the Blackwell School Board and Board of Directors for the Blackwell Country Club as well as donating over twenty-seven gallons of blood through the Cherokee Strip Chapter of the American Red Cross.

He is survived by his wife, Corky Bell of Blackwell; two daughters, Janis Hawkins and husband James of Rogers, Arkansas, and Vickie Olsen and Alan Reed of Bel Aire, Kansas; a son, Rocky Bell and Teresa Nolan of Garden City, Kansas; a sister, Betty Murray of Tahlequah, Oklahoma; five grandchildren, Luke Olsen of Lincoln, Nebraska, Lincoln Olsen and wife Karin of Johnson City, Tennessee, Lyndsay Olsen of Phoenix, Arizona, Chelsea Harris and husband Adam of Denver, Colorado, and Justina Bell of Miami, Florida; and four great grandchildren, Brooke, Riana and Gavin Olsen and Ethan Harris.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Services are scheduled for 9:30 a.m., Friday, November 11th in the First United Methodist Church in Blackwell with the Rev. Pam Cottrill of the First United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will follow in the Braman Cemetery in Braman, Oklahoma, with military rites performed by the United States Armed Services.

Casketbearers will be James Hawkins, Luke Olsen, Lincoln Olsen, Alan Reed, Adam Harris, Lyndsay Olsen, Chelsea Harris and Justina Bell.

A memorial has been established in his honor with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation for cancer research in c/o Roberts and Son Funeral Home, 120 W. Padon, Blackwell, Oklahoma 74631.