Married Lena Nye
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James Bemis Bentley, passed away at his home in Lapeer in the early afternoon of Thursday, May 31, caused by a heart attack. He had been, feeling as well as usual and that forenoon had been at Romeo after a load of hay. After dinner, he complained of gas on the stomach and took a home remedy and felt better. He lay down on the couch and in a very short period rolled off and never regained consciousness. A doctor came immediately and pronounced him dead.
Bemis Bentley was born at Deford in December of 1885, the son of William and Cordelia Bentley, and passed the most of his life here. Fifteen years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Bentley moved to Lapeer and he became the manager of the horses and directed the boys who did the work with them on the farm of the Michigan Home and Training school, and the deliveries around the institution. Later, he has done all of the institution's distant trucking. Those unfortunate boys at the institution have all of the natural emotions of other boys and all loved Bemis and Mrs. Bentley which was evidenced by their liberal contributions toward a lovely floral gift for the funeral, and by the groups who stood with tears in their eyes when the deceased was taken away from his home.
He leaves his widow, two sisters, Mrs. Chas. Downer of Pontiac and Mrs. Ray Rhodes of Detroit; two brothers, Rolland Bentley of Oregon state and Norman Bentley of Deford; one son, William, of Lapeer; and one daughter, Mrs. Raymond Slack, of Lapeer; and six grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted in Lapeer at the Baird Funeral Home at one o'clock and again at Deford church at three o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Hemingway of Lapeer, assisted by the pastor of the Deford church, Rev. Horace Freeman. A mixed quartet from Lapeer had charge of the singing. The church was filled to capacity and the beautiful floral offering was a tribute to the memory of the deceased. The remains were interred in Novesta cemetery.
Source: Cass City Chronicle, Cass City, Tuscola Co., Michigan, 8 June 1945
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James Bemis Bentley, passed away at his home in Lapeer in the early afternoon of Thursday, May 31, caused by a heart attack. He had been, feeling as well as usual and that forenoon had been at Romeo after a load of hay. After dinner, he complained of gas on the stomach and took a home remedy and felt better. He lay down on the couch and in a very short period rolled off and never regained consciousness. A doctor came immediately and pronounced him dead.
Bemis Bentley was born at Deford in December of 1885, the son of William and Cordelia Bentley, and passed the most of his life here. Fifteen years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Bentley moved to Lapeer and he became the manager of the horses and directed the boys who did the work with them on the farm of the Michigan Home and Training school, and the deliveries around the institution. Later, he has done all of the institution's distant trucking. Those unfortunate boys at the institution have all of the natural emotions of other boys and all loved Bemis and Mrs. Bentley which was evidenced by their liberal contributions toward a lovely floral gift for the funeral, and by the groups who stood with tears in their eyes when the deceased was taken away from his home.
He leaves his widow, two sisters, Mrs. Chas. Downer of Pontiac and Mrs. Ray Rhodes of Detroit; two brothers, Rolland Bentley of Oregon state and Norman Bentley of Deford; one son, William, of Lapeer; and one daughter, Mrs. Raymond Slack, of Lapeer; and six grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted in Lapeer at the Baird Funeral Home at one o'clock and again at Deford church at three o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Hemingway of Lapeer, assisted by the pastor of the Deford church, Rev. Horace Freeman. A mixed quartet from Lapeer had charge of the singing. The church was filled to capacity and the beautiful floral offering was a tribute to the memory of the deceased. The remains were interred in Novesta cemetery.
Source: Cass City Chronicle, Cass City, Tuscola Co., Michigan, 8 June 1945
Married Lena Nye
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James Bemis Bentley, passed away at his home in Lapeer in the early afternoon of Thursday, May 31, caused by a heart attack. He had been, feeling as well as usual and that forenoon had been at Romeo after a load of hay. After dinner, he complained of gas on the stomach and took a home remedy and felt better. He lay down on the couch and in a very short period rolled off and never regained consciousness. A doctor came immediately and pronounced him dead.
Bemis Bentley was born at Deford in December of 1885, the son of William and Cordelia Bentley, and passed the most of his life here. Fifteen years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Bentley moved to Lapeer and he became the manager of the horses and directed the boys who did the work with them on the farm of the Michigan Home and Training school, and the deliveries around the institution. Later, he has done all of the institution's distant trucking. Those unfortunate boys at the institution have all of the natural emotions of other boys and all loved Bemis and Mrs. Bentley which was evidenced by their liberal contributions toward a lovely floral gift for the funeral, and by the groups who stood with tears in their eyes when the deceased was taken away from his home.
He leaves his widow, two sisters, Mrs. Chas. Downer of Pontiac and Mrs. Ray Rhodes of Detroit; two brothers, Rolland Bentley of Oregon state and Norman Bentley of Deford; one son, William, of Lapeer; and one daughter, Mrs. Raymond Slack, of Lapeer; and six grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted in Lapeer at the Baird Funeral Home at one o'clock and again at Deford church at three o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Hemingway of Lapeer, assisted by the pastor of the Deford church, Rev. Horace Freeman. A mixed quartet from Lapeer had charge of the singing. The church was filled to capacity and the beautiful floral offering was a tribute to the memory of the deceased. The remains were interred in Novesta cemetery.
Source: Cass City Chronicle, Cass City, Tuscola Co., Michigan, 8 June 1945
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James Bemis Bentley, passed away at his home in Lapeer in the early afternoon of Thursday, May 31, caused by a heart attack. He had been, feeling as well as usual and that forenoon had been at Romeo after a load of hay. After dinner, he complained of gas on the stomach and took a home remedy and felt better. He lay down on the couch and in a very short period rolled off and never regained consciousness. A doctor came immediately and pronounced him dead.
Bemis Bentley was born at Deford in December of 1885, the son of William and Cordelia Bentley, and passed the most of his life here. Fifteen years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Bentley moved to Lapeer and he became the manager of the horses and directed the boys who did the work with them on the farm of the Michigan Home and Training school, and the deliveries around the institution. Later, he has done all of the institution's distant trucking. Those unfortunate boys at the institution have all of the natural emotions of other boys and all loved Bemis and Mrs. Bentley which was evidenced by their liberal contributions toward a lovely floral gift for the funeral, and by the groups who stood with tears in their eyes when the deceased was taken away from his home.
He leaves his widow, two sisters, Mrs. Chas. Downer of Pontiac and Mrs. Ray Rhodes of Detroit; two brothers, Rolland Bentley of Oregon state and Norman Bentley of Deford; one son, William, of Lapeer; and one daughter, Mrs. Raymond Slack, of Lapeer; and six grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted in Lapeer at the Baird Funeral Home at one o'clock and again at Deford church at three o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Hemingway of Lapeer, assisted by the pastor of the Deford church, Rev. Horace Freeman. A mixed quartet from Lapeer had charge of the singing. The church was filled to capacity and the beautiful floral offering was a tribute to the memory of the deceased. The remains were interred in Novesta cemetery.
Source: Cass City Chronicle, Cass City, Tuscola Co., Michigan, 8 June 1945
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