Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at the LaForge chapel for Mrs. Pansy Leone Bennett, 57, who died of a heart attack Sunday morning at Pemiscot County Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Ray Benefield, a lay minister in the Pilgrim Holiness Church conducted the service.
Mrs. Bennett was born on April 28, 1905 in Kennett and had lived here with her family for thirty years.
She is survived by her husband, Lonnie Bennett; five daughters, Mrs. Melba Byrn and Mrs. Peggy Shearer of Three Rivers, Mich., Mrs. Barbara Nolan of Dixon, Mo., Mrs. Cindie Bell of this city and Miss Darla Bennett of the home; four sons, Billy Bennett of Houston, Tex., Bobby of Murphysboro, Tenn., Benny of Franklin, Tenn. and Dickie Don Bennett of the home; a brother Ernest Wilbanks of this city; two sisters, Mrs. Eula Young of this city and Mrs. Verla Speaddling of St. Louis; and 15 grandchildren.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, April 26, 1963
FATHER: Andrew Wilbanks
BROTHER: Earnest Leslie Wilbanks (1902-1985)
SISTER: Eula Marie Wilbanks Young (1910-2004)
SISTER: Verla Wilbanks Mackay (1913-1999)
BROTHER: Fred Eugene Wilbanks (1910-1962)
All interred in Little Parairie Cemetery
Mrs. Bennett was born on April 28, 1905 in Kennett and had lived here with her family for thirty years.
She is survived by her husband, Lonnie Bennett; five daughters, Mrs. Melba Byrn and Mrs. Peggy Shearer of Three Rivers, Mich., Mrs. Barbara Nolan of Dixon, Mo., Mrs. Cindie Bell of this city and Miss Darla Bennett of the home; four sons, Billy Bennett of Houston, Tex., Bobby of Murphysboro, Tenn., Benny of Franklin, Tenn. and Dickie Don Bennett of the home; a brother Ernest Wilbanks of this city; two sisters, Mrs. Eula Young of this city and Mrs. Verla Speaddling of St. Louis; and 15 grandchildren.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, April 26, 1963
FATHER: Andrew Wilbanks
BROTHER: Earnest Leslie Wilbanks (1902-1985)
SISTER: Eula Marie Wilbanks Young (1910-2004)
SISTER: Verla Wilbanks Mackay (1913-1999)
BROTHER: Fred Eugene Wilbanks (1910-1962)
All interred in Little Parairie Cemetery
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at the LaForge chapel for Mrs. Pansy Leone Bennett, 57, who died of a heart attack Sunday morning at Pemiscot County Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Ray Benefield, a lay minister in the Pilgrim Holiness Church conducted the service.
Mrs. Bennett was born on April 28, 1905 in Kennett and had lived here with her family for thirty years.
She is survived by her husband, Lonnie Bennett; five daughters, Mrs. Melba Byrn and Mrs. Peggy Shearer of Three Rivers, Mich., Mrs. Barbara Nolan of Dixon, Mo., Mrs. Cindie Bell of this city and Miss Darla Bennett of the home; four sons, Billy Bennett of Houston, Tex., Bobby of Murphysboro, Tenn., Benny of Franklin, Tenn. and Dickie Don Bennett of the home; a brother Ernest Wilbanks of this city; two sisters, Mrs. Eula Young of this city and Mrs. Verla Speaddling of St. Louis; and 15 grandchildren.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, April 26, 1963
FATHER: Andrew Wilbanks
BROTHER: Earnest Leslie Wilbanks (1902-1985)
SISTER: Eula Marie Wilbanks Young (1910-2004)
SISTER: Verla Wilbanks Mackay (1913-1999)
BROTHER: Fred Eugene Wilbanks (1910-1962)
All interred in Little Parairie Cemetery
Mrs. Bennett was born on April 28, 1905 in Kennett and had lived here with her family for thirty years.
She is survived by her husband, Lonnie Bennett; five daughters, Mrs. Melba Byrn and Mrs. Peggy Shearer of Three Rivers, Mich., Mrs. Barbara Nolan of Dixon, Mo., Mrs. Cindie Bell of this city and Miss Darla Bennett of the home; four sons, Billy Bennett of Houston, Tex., Bobby of Murphysboro, Tenn., Benny of Franklin, Tenn. and Dickie Don Bennett of the home; a brother Ernest Wilbanks of this city; two sisters, Mrs. Eula Young of this city and Mrs. Verla Speaddling of St. Louis; and 15 grandchildren.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Friday, April 26, 1963
FATHER: Andrew Wilbanks
BROTHER: Earnest Leslie Wilbanks (1902-1985)
SISTER: Eula Marie Wilbanks Young (1910-2004)
SISTER: Verla Wilbanks Mackay (1913-1999)
BROTHER: Fred Eugene Wilbanks (1910-1962)
All interred in Little Parairie Cemetery
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