Lola Bell, veteran newspaper woman and resident of Nevada since 1927 died Saturday night at a local hospital after an illness of three weeks.

Mrs. Bell, who for the last fifteen years had been Reno correspondent for the New York Daily News, followed newspaper work most of her life. She spent her early yhears in the eastern states and in France, where she was educated. During the world war she served with the allied forces in the ambulance corps. For some time she lived in Paris and was correspondent for the New York Herald there.

Shortly after coming to Nevada she was married to Jack Bell, and had resided in Reno and Verdi since. In addition to her husband she is survived by a son, Thomas A. Connell of Brooklyn, N.Y. She was born in New York City in 1885.

The recitation of the rosary will take place this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the O'Brien-Rogers chapel, and the funeral will commence at the chapel Tuesday at 8:45 a.m. thence to Our Lady of the Snows church where a high requiem mass will be celebrated at nine o'clock by the Rev. John J. Ryan. Burial will follow in New York.