Moira BELL

  General Notes:

From her obituary:

Moira was born to Thomas Robson Bell and Flora (Dereghetti), the fourth of six children, in Edinburgh, Scotland. She attended London Street Elementary and Bellevue Secondary School, where she was the girl's champion in athletics (setting school records which remained on the books for years) and graduated second in her class.

After leaving school, she became a book binder in a printing firm. For a few years she lived in Australia, where she became a member of the Episcopal Church. Returning to Scotland, she became a government telephone operator (before becoming computerized, her's was one of the voices recorded for the talking clock).

In 1970, she married Robert League, an American divinity student at Edinburgh University. They moved to Los Angeles where they both worked as child care workers with emotionally disturbed, abused and delinquent boys. When she was expecting her first child, she insisted on returning to her home so her family would be born in Scotland.

Her Sons were born in 1973 and 1975. During this time, her husband was ordained to the ministry and they served Liberton Kirk in Edinburgh and St. Mungo's Kirk in Alloa, Scotland.

In 1976, they accepted a call to serve a Methodist Church in Shoshone, Idaho. In 1979, they ministered to the First Presbyterian Church in Belleville, Kan. In 1985, they served the West Carrollton Presbyterian Church in Dayton.

In 1993, they accepted a call to the Mowrystown Presbyterian Church, where they remained until retiring at the end of 2008. While in the area, they lived first in Amelia, then moved into Brown County. Moira became a nurse's aide at Clermont Mercy Hospital and later joined the housekeeping staff until her retirement.

After battling ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Moira died April 9, 2010.

BURIAL
Mowrystown Cemetery
Mowrystown, Highland County, Ohio, USA

Moira married Living