Merritt Stafford Bennett
1913 - 1976
Services: Thursday, June 17, 1976 - 2 p.m., Rose Chapel
Ministers: Rev. Gerald Bruner, West Plains, MO and Rev. Richard Eakins, Coffeyville, KS
Mt. Zion Cemetery, Olden, MO
Honorary Pallbearers
John Cearley Gilbert Burgess
Orlin McMurtrey Cliff Williams
Robert Pallmerine
Active Pallbearers
Larry Hampton Harlan Dodd
Bobby Lawrence Robert Williams
Eldon Collins
Merritt Stafford Bennett, son of the late M. S. and Eunice Tracewell Bennett, was born at Dickens, Nebraska, December 29, 1913. Entered into eternal rest June 14, 1976, at the age of sixty-two years.
Mr. Bennett came to this County at the age of twelve years with his parents, and on May 4, 1935, was married at Hardy, Arkansas, to Edna Collins, who survives him, as do two children, Dean Bennett, Pomona, Missouri, and Mrs. Joyce Hall, West Plains, Missouri. There are three grandchildren surviving, as do two sisters and two brothers, who are Mrs. Velma Miller, Mrs. Hazel Carver and Leonard Bennett, all of Salem, Oregon, and Lindus Bennett, Pomona, Missouri.
Preceding Mr. Bennett in death are his parents, a son, one brother and one sister.
Mr. Bennett has been a member of the Mt. Zion Church for more then forty years, and has for many years served as Deacon of that Church. He was a Director of the Bridges School District Board in Howell County for a number of years.