Once the tallest man in America, Portsmouth native, sheriff deputy remembered by love, warmness
She didn’t always realize they were “fans.” Her daddy, she said, was in fact a “giant.” George Bell, a Hampton Roads native and former Harlem Globetrotter, was 7-foot-8 and, at one point, held the ...
George Bell, America's tallest man and Portsmouth native, passes away
Bell was a deputy with the Norfolk Sheriff's Office from 2000 to 2014. He stood at a towering 7 feet, 8 inches tall.
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Ex-Norfolk deputy, tallest man in America, dies
Former Norfolk Sheriff’s Department Deputy and gentle giant George Bell has died. Bell, who was born in Portsmouth, Virginia ...