{"id":42030,"date":"2016-02-25T11:15:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=42030"},"modified":"2016-02-25T11:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:30:30","slug":"obituary-graydon-bell-professor-emeritus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/obituary-graydon-bell-professor-emeritus\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Graydon Bell, professor emeritus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graydon Willis Bell<\/strong>, professor emeritus of statistics, died February 19, 2016. He was 72.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bell was born in 1943 on a farm in Minnesota, and grew up fishing and hunting, two passions which continued throughout his life. He\u00a0was a happy person, who burst with passion for life and delighted in a good yarn. He loved fishing trips with his family and his buddies, hiking the Grand Canyon from rim to rim in a day, multi-day river trips and months-long road trips.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bell\u00a0lived for several decades in Flagstaff with his beloved wife Gail. He was a statistics professor at Northern Arizona University from 1967 to 2003. He was known as an excellent teacher who always brought color to what many might consider a dry subject.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Gail; daughters Tracy, Jackie and Melanie; and his grandchildren Nicole and Nathan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A\u00a0celebration of \u00a0life will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, in the 1899 Ballroom\u00a0on NAU&#8217;s campus.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Appetizers, beer and wine will be served.\u00a0Online condolences may be left at the <a href=\"http:\/\/obits.dignitymemorial.com\/dignity-memorial\/obituary.aspx?n=Graydon-Bell&amp;lc=7017&amp;pid=177789079&amp;mid=6811237\">Phoenix Memorial Park and Mortuary<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/obituary-graydon-bell-professor-emeritus\/\">Graydon Willis Bell, professor emeritus of statistics, died February 19, 2016. He was 72. Mr. Bell was born in 1943 on a farm in Minnesota, and grew up fishing and hunting, two passions which continued throughout his life. He\u00a0was a happy person, who burst with passion for life and delighted in a good yarn. He&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":42031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}