Julie Anne Marr wrote on April 15, 2025

I am still very numb from the news of the death. I definitely thought he was going to pull through. He was such a fighter and incredible man in all of our lives I will miss him so much. I don’t even have words to say at this moment of how much I’m going to miss him and what he meant to me over the past four years of meeting him on April 24 at the East End gas station ⛽️ my life is never the same after meeting him and we’ve been best of friends and shared our hopes and dreams for the future in our relationship. Going to New York City and Florida and seeing his family in New York City and possibly going to Belize together on a mission trip…. I got to know many of Steve’s friends through him and he got to know a ton of my friends through me up at the lakes and in Yankton SD and he helped me so much with my daughter Cassandra. His smile was infectious and his laugh was something I look forward to every day as we shared about our day activities in the evening before we went to sleep. I know he was loved by so many I am very sad to lose him.. 😭💕🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 It is a tragedy for all of us to lose such a blessed soul as Stephen Bell. He told me stories about his parents all the time growing up in New York City.!!!! he meant the world of so many of us! And I know he helped everybody in his family as much as he could whenever he could ….. however he could and every day that he could!!!! I don’t think I’ll ever stop crying over Steve . I just stopped to see a girlfriend in Okoboji and I have friends that wanna come all the way from here to the funeral that I’ve known him for four years. My heart goes out to his former brother-in-law and wife and their kids and all of his kids from New York City and Arizona and locally in town. They are all just great kids and I just want them all to know how much I love their dad so much from the bottom of my heart. We had many great times up at the lakes and had a lot of future plans to be together celebrating life together, but now I’ll have to wait till heaven.. I pray he’s in the company of angels and with God our father who created him so special as he is….. Love 💕 to everyone who shared in their love for Stephen with me! he was definitely the life of the party and I miss him so much !!!!! ☝🏼💔💔💔✝️Jesus he’s all yours now until we meet again in Paradise .