Thanks for the info.
I had heard Clayton had passed away, just wasn’t sure. If he passed in 2000, he was only 68 or 69. Do you know the cause?
Regarding Dr. Bell, I knew it was something Presbyterian. :))
On a further trivia note, Clayton Bell played high school football with the former Chancellor of North Carolina State U., Larry Monteith. They weren’t in the same class. Bell was a year ahead of Monteith.
i think it was a heart attack. He’d had a history of heart problems - I understand that was one reason he retired. The stress of the church split can’t have helped. I believe that he was truly surprised when things spiraled out of control in 1990=91. But that was already a decade behind him when he died.
I think he died over the 4th of July weekend, or right before. Seems like the new pastor was to start on July 1.