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<\/a><\/p>\nLee Phillip Bell was also the first woman to receive the Governor\u2019s Award from the Chicago chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She produced several award-winning specials that surrounded topics such as divorce, rape, and foster children<\/p>\n
\u201cOur mother was a loving and supportive wife, mother and grandmother,\u201d the family said in a statement. \u201cGracious and kind, she enriched the lives of all who knew her. We will miss her tremendously.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to her three children, Mrs. Bell is survived by a brother and eight grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first lady of the Chicago airwaves Lee Phillip Bell passed away on Tuesday in her Los Angeles home. A spokesperson for the family says Bell died of natural causes. She was 91 years old. The Emmy Award winning broadcast Journalist and TV show writer was known for hosting The Lee Phillip Show in 1953,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[62,274,4],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","tag-celebrity-death","tag-soap-opera","tag-television"],"yoast_head":"\n
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