6/24/24 – 8/15/97

Vernon Bellows, 73, died Friday, Aug. 15, 1997 at his Omaha home.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. at First United Methodist church in Blair. Rev. Kenneth McClain will officiate. Burial will be in Blair Cemetery.

Bellows was born in Walthill, Neb. June 24, 1924 to Vernon F. and Louise (Boughn) Bellows. The family moved to Blair in 1930. He graduated from Blair High School in 1942. He joined the Army after one semester at the University of Nebraska and served in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II for over two years as first sergeant and registrar of the 100th Station Hospital in New Delhi, India. On June 23, 1946, he married Phyllis Jensen. He attended the Omaha Art School and the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as a commercial artist for over 30 years. In 1951, he painted the mural of the Last Supper in First United Methodist Church’s sanctuary.

He is survived by his wife, Phyllis; son, Kent; daughters and sons-in-law, Debra and Douglas Wesselmann and Robin and James Griess; grandchildren, Vincent Wesselmann, Madolin Wesselmann, Hannah Wesselmann, Philip Griess, David Griess and Neil Griess, all of Omaha; brothers, Ray of Tampa, Fla., and Steven of Omaha; sisters, Nancy Gabby of Blair and Cynthia Bird of Wilton, Conn., and many other relatives.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.