ROLLING FORK — Services for Eugene Bell will be at noon Saturday at the United Baptist Church of Fitler with the Rev. Willie Joyner officiating. Burial will follow at St. Matthew Cemetery under the direction of W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home.

Mr. Bell died Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, at River Region Medical Center. He was 79.

Mr. Bell was a retired farmer and member of United Baptist Church of Fitler.

He was preceded in death by his parents, the Rev. Issac and Lilly Bell; a son, Selmon Ford; and three brothers, Ike Bell, Leroy Bell and Linnell Bell.

He is survived by his wife, Louella Bell of Rolling Fork; four sons, Eugene Bell Jr. and Otis Bell, both of Detroit, Lonnie Bell Ford of Phoenix, Ariz., and Johnny Green of Glen Allan; seven daughters, Frances Bell of Joliet, Ill., Delphine Hines of Memphis, Pearl Webb of Rolling Fork, Debra Bell-Young of Atlanta, Josephine Crawford of Las Vegas, Bridgette Portis of Flowood and Wanda Lewis -Stimage of Vicksburg; eight brothers, Arthur Bell, Freddie Bell, Joe Bell and Percy Bell, all of Vicksburg, Tommie Bell of Rolling Fork, William Bell of Omaha, Neb., W.R. Bell of Jackson and Elijah Bell of Biloxi; four sisters, Frances Bell-Barnes and Betty Jean Bell, both of Rolling Fork, Margaret Garner of Jackson and Ruby C. Stewart of New Orleans; 28 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives.