Arnold Bellows
Arnold Bellows, a longtime Southampton resident, died in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, October 22. He was 68.
Mr. Bellows was a Southampton native who graduated from Southampton High School in 1961. After graduation, he earned a teaching degree from the State University of New York at Fredonia. Later he received a master’s degree in French literature from the University of Aix-en-Provence and continued his graduate work at Paris-Sorbonne University in Paris, France. In 1982, Mr. Bellows’s French-language book about Quebec, “Quebec a la Une,” was published by the Copp Clark Company.
Mr. Bellows taught French at Southampton High School and subsequently taught language in Quebec City, Canada, and in Atlanta, Georgia. After retiring from teaching he continued to tutor students in both French and Spanish.
As someone who loved to travel and visited several countries around the world, Mr. Bellows passed on his wanderlust to his children who have also been to the “four corners of the world,” family said.
Mr. Bellows is survived by his wife of 42 years, Francoise; children, Marie Claire and her husband Joel Weber of Atlanta, Xavier Bellows of Atlanta; a granddaughter, Anais; and brothers, Charles Bellows of Southampton and John Bellows of Massachusetts.
No local funeral arrangements are planned.
on Nov 1, 2011