Howard Warren Bell

Warren died at home the morning of December 26, 2016. He was born March 20, 1933 to Daulty and Marzee Bell (nee Nunn) in the community of Minter, in Lamar County, Texas, where he lived throughout his youth, graduating Deport High School in 1949. He attended TCU from 1949 - 1950, then transferred to

The University of Texas at Austin where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Geology in 1953.

Warren worked as an exploration geologist with Union Sulphur in Lake Charles and Superior Oil in New Orleans, and in 1969 relocated to Houston where he worked for Kilroy Company through 1974. He then took a position with McCormick Oil & Gas where he remained until 1978 when he became an Independent Geologist. He was an Independent Geologist for the rest of his career.

While working in Lake Charles, he met and married Jeannette Sutter in 1956. They have two children, Katherine Shipley (husband Tom), and Brian (partner Michael Cammareri), Grandchildren William and Anne Marie Shipley.

Warren greatly enjoyed the outdoors, with a lifelong love of hunting, fishing, and SCUBA diving, as well as traveling the world and reading literature. But his greatest joy, devotion and love were for his wife, children and grandchildren, who will keep his memory each day along with surviving sister Wanda Porterfield and husband Ray, cousin Waylon Norrell and wife Pat, sister-in-law Dorothy Mims, his other relations and many friends.

Friends are cordially invited to gather with the family and share remembrances of Warren at a reception from 5:00 until 7:00 PM on Thursday, December 29th at the family home. In lieu of flowers the family requests you consider a memorial donation to Houston Hospice, 1905 Holcombe Blvd., Houston Texas 77030-4123, or at www.houstonhospice.org.

Prior to the reception, the family will have gathered for a private interment at Memorial Oaks Mausoleum in Houston.