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Dr. Frank Richard Schell

December 26, 1920 — January 9, 2012

Dr. Frank R. Schell, age 91, of Meriden, N.H., formerly of Smoke Rise, N.J., passed away Monday, January 9, 2012 at his home with his devoted family at his side. He was born December 26, 1920 in New York City. Frank was proud of his Hungarian heritage and his poor Ellis Island immigrant parents, Francis and Sidonia Schell. He was educated in the public school system there and graduated from the University of Rochester in 1943. He graduated from the Long Island School of Medicine and did his rotating internship at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. Dr. Schell was a practicing radiologist for over 50 years at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Paterson, N.J. where he served as Chairman of the Department of Radiology, President of the Medical Staff and Chairman of the Medical Board. He was a Fellow in the American College of Radiology. He served as a long time consultant with the N.J. Department of Health and Division of Environmental Protection. He enjoyed teaching and served as a Professor of Radiology at Seton Hall University and the New Jersey College of Medicine. Dr. Schell was especially dedicated for decades to his students at the School of Radiologic Technology, Passaic County College. He served continuously on numerous other committees for state and county medical societies. He served two elected terms on the Borough of Kinnelon Council as chairman of finance, utilities, and buildings and grounds. Dr. Schell was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Magnificat R.C. Church in Kinnelon and St. Anthony's R.C. Church in Butler where he and Jeanne were honored and received as affiliates into the Third Order of the Friars Minor. He will be remembered for his wonderful sense of humor, his sense of justice, honesty, love, kindness, compassion and generosity, much of which is known to God alone. He was predeceased by his beloved wife of 50 years, Jeanne Schell, his two daughters Mary Martha, and Frances Ilona, and his beloved sister Elizabeth Abell. Frank is survived by four sons and four daughters: Dr. Frank C. Schell and his wife Susan of Cornish Flat, N.H.; John K. Schell and his wife Cindy of Newton, N.J.; Margaret Schell Bossett and her husband Henry of Sea Girt, N.J.; Catherine Schell Caddigan and her husband Robert of Randolph, MA.; Barbara Schell Irven and her husband James of Sparta , N.J.; James C. Schell and his wife Gail of Honesdale, PA.; Maria Schell Daugherty of Meriden, N.H.; Dr. Thomas G. Schell and his wife Stephanie of Meriden, N.H.; 24 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.Visitation will be Friday, January 13, from 4:00 to 8:00 pm at Morrison Funeral Home , 86 Bartholdi Ave., Butler, NJ. The funeral Mass will be Saturday 10:00 am at Saint Anthony of Padua Parish in Butler, NJ. Burial will follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Butler, NJ. In lieu of flowers Dr. Schell requested that donations be made to: Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, P.O. Box 476, Convent Station, NJ 07961, St. Anthony Friary, 63 Bartholdi Avenue , Butler, N.J. 07405 or RLS Foundation 1610 14th St. NW Suite 300 Rochester, N.Y. 55901 in his memory.

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