Dot Bell
Mrs. Dorothy “Dot” Bell, 86, a resident of Troy, died Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, at White-Ranson Funeral Home. Revs. William Matheny and Mike Davis will be officiating.
Burial will follow in Mt. Moriah Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Bobby Bell, Alan Bell, Jeffrey Bell, Bradley Bell, Jeffrey Bell Jr., Ricky Lindsay and Jason Morphis.
The family will receive friends from 4-7 pm on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2025, at the funeral home.
Mrs. Bell was born on July 13, 1939, in Greenfield, Ark., to the late Earl Prince and Bessie (Morris) Wiggins. She worked as a Custodian for the former VF Factory Outlet. On May 16, 1958, she married Bobbie Wayne Bell. He preceded her on Oct. 21, 2008.
She was a member of Graves Chapel Church of God in Hornbeak.
She is survived by three sons, Bobby Bell II and wife, Karen, of Troy, Alan Bell and wife, Wanda, of Union City and Jeffrey Bell and wife, Becky, of Jackson; five grandchildren, Bobby Bell, Bradley Bell, Amanda Bell, Aerial Lindsey and Jeffrey Bell Jr.; four great-grandchildren; three sisters-in-law, Gwen Motes, Mary Prince and Nina Prince; and several nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by her son, Terry Bell; two brothers, Billy Prince and Donnie Prince; and a daughter-in-law, Jo Bell.
The Messenger 11.3.25