Biography: Ray Bell, an accomplished jazz and classical musician and comprehensive guitar instructor, died Friday morning at age 67 in Little Rock. As a teenager in school, he showed a single minded determination to master the guitar. He road trains to learn the guitar from Mel Bay. By his late teens, he started playing with jazz and blues bands and toured with the likes of The Clyde ( sugar blues) McCoy Band and the band of Ray ( Young Man with a Horn ) Anthony. Dissatisfied with the road, he came back home and started teaching music at Rosen Music, downtown. He became a very talented session guitarist who was often hired to play with the bands of stars at the Vapors and other local venues when they came to the area. He followed Bob Boyd when he opened his music store in 1963 and became a fixture at Boyd Music, as a guitar instructor to hundreds of students through the years. He taught music mastery at all levels. Later he became accomplished with the mandolin, writing a Mandolin Chord Guide for the popular Mel Bay book group and was a member of the Classical Mandolin Society. His life and work will continue to live on through his students. He is survived by his wife of 29 years, Ann Hunt Bell, his mother Hazel Stephens Rice, brother, Ivan Bell and His wife Linda, daughter, Robin Dickens of Little Rock, step children, Bobby Illing and Robin Fisher, three grandchildren, Robert Bailey Jr. , Rhiannon Dickens and Richard Dickens, and two great grandchildren. Ray is also survived by numerous step grandchildren and step great -grandchildren as well as many nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at 1:00 PM on Tuesday at Westover Hills Presbyterian Church with Rev. Debbie Freeman officiating. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Arkansas Hospice, 5600 W. 12th Street, Little Rock, AR 72204 or to the American Cancer Society, 901 N. University, Little Rock, AR 72205. Cremation arrangements are by Ruebel Funeral Home, www.ruebelfuneralhome.com