C. Pershing Bell 1915-1983

Funeral services for C. Pershing Bell, 67, of Sunset Hills, a former FBI agent and professor of criminal justice at St. Louis Community College-Meramec, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Bopp Funeral Chapel, 10610 Manchester Road, Kirkwood. Burial will be in Waynesville, Missouri.

Mr. Bell died Monday, August 29, 1983 at St. Anthony’s Medical Center in South St. Louis County of complications resulting from a long battle with cancer.

Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Bopp.

Mr. Bell, a native of Waynesville graduated from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1942 and joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an agent. He served in several offices and became an instructor at the FBI’s training school in Quantico, Virginia in 1947.

He served at Quntico until 1957, when he became legal attache to the U.S. Embassy in Ottowa. He was transferred to St. Louis as a special agent in 1959 and served here until 1966, when he retired from the FBI and joined the Meramec faculty.

Mr. Bell is survived by his wife, Mildred Brenner Bell of Sunset Hills; three sisters, Mrs. Fred Krauss of Russville, Illinois, Mrs. Charles W. Talbot of Lebanon, Missouri, and Mrs. Chester R. Woody of Richland, Mo.; and one brother, Roland of St. Louis.