BELLAR, Robert Edward "Bob" - b. June 6, 1929 - d. January 21, 2003

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Winfield Courier
January 22, 2003

HOWARD-- Robert Edward "Bob" Bellar, 73, longtime resident of the Howard area, died Jan. 21, 2003, at Greenwood County Hospital in Eureka.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Howard United Methodist Church.  The Rev. Julie Shields will officiate.  Private burial will be in Grace Lawn Cemetery.  Zimmerman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials have been established with the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association.

Bellar was born June 6, 1929, at Bismarck, N. D., to Abbie Helen (Artz) and Edward George Bellar.  He attended rural school near Oil Hill and later El Dorado High School until his family moved to Elk County in 1946.  He graduated from Howard High School in 1947.

From 1951 to 1953, during the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Army.

On Feb. 12, 1955, he married Pauline Louise Coble in Severy.  They owned and operated a farm west of Howard throughout their marriage and lived in town during recent years.

Bellar was a member of Carter-Rader American Legion Post 149 and the Howard United Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Pauline Bellar, and a son, Mike Bellar, both of Howard; two daughters, Marcene Stevens, St. Louis, and Becky Lanning, Independence, and eight grandchildren.