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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Schoch: Bell never stopped teaching

Column a few days after my friend Howard Bell died of ALS. Published April 1, 2013.

On Dec. 14, 2011, Howard Bell was faced with a choice.

As a 47-year-old in a St. Louis hospital, he had just learned 50 was a long shot.

An incurable neurological disorder, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, would weaken his body over time and eventually take his life.

That part was out of his hands.