Nina Bell: Air Force
Child
Nina
Bell was every inch a fighter pilot's daughter --
slender, athletic and looking even taller than her 5
feet, 8 inches. Born in the Netherlands, the first stop
in a nomadic Air Force childhood, she grew up confident,
smart, "the It girl," as a friend once put it. A
bachelor's degree in business administration from the
University of Colorado at Boulder led her to become a
manager of information systems and, most recently, into
project management.
But to her friends and family, there was also the side
that was not all business. Ms. Bell's notebook had a
bumper sticker that read, "Mean People Suck." With her
brother, Lowell Bell, 40, she kept up a private banter,
sometimes based on the dim Canadian duo, the Mackenzie
brothers, from the 1970's television show, "Second City
TV." "Hey, hoser," she would call him.
This September, Ms. Bell, 39, had settled in
Manhattan, in a new apartment on the Upper East Side and
in a new job as a project manager with Marsh &
McLennan. In an e-mail message to her friend Lorraine
Davis on Monday, Sept. 10, at 2 p.m., Ms. Bell wrote, "I
am so very happy."
.