Jacquelyn (Thompson) Bell

Jacquelyn Lynch Bell, 90, of Cheboygan, passed away Saturday, August 11, 2018 at Hancock Haven in Cheboygan.

Jacquelyn was born September 11, 1927 in Cheboygan, the daughter of Charles A. and Naomi (Kitchen) Thompson.  A graduate of Cheboygan High School, she later attended Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, earning a Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Pathology.  She then went to work in her field for a parish (county) in New Orleans, Louisiana.  She later returned to Michigan where she married Marvin R. Lynch in 1954 in Trenton, Michigan, where the couple made their home, and was employed as a speech and hearing therapist at Trenton Public Schools, and later Riverview Public Schools, retiring in 1984.  After the passing of her husband Marvin, she moved back to Cheboygan in 1986, and in 1990, married Donald Bell of Mackinaw City, who preceded her in death in 2009.  Jacquelyn was a member of St. James Episcopal Church in Cheboygan, but had attended the Church of the Straits with her husband Don prior to his passing.  Jacquelyn enjoyed traveling, cooking, playing bridge, and golfing, and was a member of the Cheboygan and Mullett Lake Country Clubs, the Red Hat Society, the Cheboygan Garden Society, was the former president of the hospital guild, and was active in the alumni society of her college sorority, the Gamma Phi Beta’s.  While she was in Florida, she was a member of the bell choir at her church in Long Boat Key.

Surviving are her children, a son, Chad Lynch, and a daughter, Jill Lynch, both of Cheboygan, two grandchildren, Lora DiBlasi of East Lansing, and Benjamin DiBlasi of Chicago, Illinois.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and her husbands, Marvin Lynch and Donald Bell.

A memorial service will be held on Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 11:00am, with the family greeting friends beginning at 10:00am, at St. James Episcopal Church in Cheboygan.  Rev. Lewis Crusoe will officiate, burial will be at Maple Grove Cemetery in Cheboygan.

Memorials may be made to St. James Episcopal Church in Cheboygan.

Online condolences may be made at www.stonefuneralhomeinc.com.

The Nordman-Christian Funeral Home is caring for the family.

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