Joe Ulysis Bell, 78, Blountville. Return to top BLOUNTVILLE - Joe Ulysis Bell, 78, passed away Tuesday (March 15, 2005) at James H. Quillen VA Medical Center. He was born in Hancock County, Tenn., and was the son of the late Roy and Sara Etta Lawson Bell. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and retired from Mason Dixon Truck Lines. He was a member of the Teamsters Local 549 and Chestnut Grove Baptist Church and attended Brookside Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Blanche Templeton Bell; daughters, Billie Jean Wilson and her husband David of Kingsport, Joan Moody and her husband Joe of Blountville, and Chloe Jones of Piney Flats; son, Larry Bell and his wife Betty of Kingsport; granddaughters, Christy Willocks and her husband Eric, Lauren Ketchum and her husband Paul, and Stacy Moody; great-granddaughter, Ashlyn Willocks; sisters, Mary Ann Brooks of Kingsport, and Alice Gibson and her husband Taylor of Blountville; brothers, Hoover Bell and Eugene Bell and his wife Geraldine, all of Blountville, Fayne Bell and his wife Maxine, and Ralph Bell and his wife Joyce, all of Kingsport, and Roy Bell and his wife Judy of Bluff City; and several nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends from 5 to 6:45 p.m. today at Oakley-Cook Funeral Home, Bristol, Tenn. Services will follow at 7 p.m. today in the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Fred Potter and the Rev. William LeFevre officiating. The committal service and interment will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Gunnings Cemetery.