The Beacon
Bell Heating & Electric on Marblehead has been a mainstay for area homeowners, especially when they have winter heating problems to be solved. (Photo by Phil Wheeler)
BY PHIL WHEELER
Richard Bell, known to everyone around Ottawa County as “Dick the Furnace Guy,” had a goal in life more than 60 years ago as he grew up watching everyone around him work coal mines in the Keystone State.
Born in the little coal mining town of Elco, Pa., population 310, located 33 miles south of Pittsburgh, he has a vivid memory of growing up.
“My whole family were coal miners. My father, my brothers and uncles.” he said. “I didn’t want that.”