BENNETT, Louisa Evalyn SMITH 1866-1958

BENNETT, WRIGHT, SMITH, JONES, BOOS, HAWK

Posted By: Richard K Thompson (email)
Date: 10/25/2009 at 09:51:57

Fairfield Ia Ledger
Monday Dec. 8, 1958

Rites Tuesday For Mrs. BENNETT

RICHLAND, Ia. - Funeral services for Mrs. Louisa Evalyn BENNETT, 92, will be held at the Gould Eden funeral home at Brighton Tuesday at 2 p.m. The Rev. Donald A. Eagle will be in charge of the service. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery at Fairfield.

Mrs. BENNETT was born in Macoupin county, Ill., April 10, 1866, the daughter of S.P. and Mary WRIGHT SMITH. She was married to Willis L. BENNETT Jan. 17, 1902 at Nilwood, Ill. She came to Fairfield as a bride and after the death of her husband in 1924 she made her home in Brighton. Since 1950 Mrs. BENNETT had lived at the Ramsey Memorial home in Des Moines.

Besides her husband she was preceded in death by an infant son and three brothers. Survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Minnie JONES and Mrs. Mollie BOOS; and a niece, Mrs. Palmer HAWK, all of Fairfield. Mrs. BENNETT was a member of the Christian church at Brighton.

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*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: Buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, Iowa 2nd Addition .089. The plot and headstone is shared with her brother John Franklin SMITH (they are adjacent to their mother, Mary WRIGHT SMITH HARBOUR).