Event July 23 for late district attorney Bell

A celebration of life will be from noon to 3 p.m. July 23 in the South Point showroom for former District Attorney Rex Bell Jr., who died Saturday .

Michael Gaughan is the host. The date, fittingly, is the National Day of the Cowboy.

Bell, 76, was the son of famed cowboy actor Rex Bell Sr. and Hollywood “It Girl” Clara Bow. Bell was a Las Vegas justice of the peace in the 1970s and Clark County district attorney from 1986 to 1994.

In lieu of flowers, Bell’s family requests donations to one of the following groups:

■ Standing Tall, C/O Father John Smythe (one of Bell’s Notre Dame classmates), 1100 N. River Road, Des Plaines, Ill. 60016;

■ Flagstaff Mission to the Navajos, P.O. Box AA, Flagstaff, Ariz. 86002;

■ Salvation Army, P.O. Box 28369, Las Vegas, Nev. 89126.