Charlyn M. Bennett 1928-2011

BENNETT METT PETERSEN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 6/30/2011 at 22:00:21

Sioux City Journal
19 March 2011

SIOUX CITY -- Charlyn M. Bennett, 83, of Sioux City, passed away Sunday, March 13, 2011, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at First United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Roger Madden officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery in rural Spencer, Iowa. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, with the family present 6 to 7 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Online condolences may be sent at www.meyerbroschapels.com.

Charlyn was born the daughter of Harry F. and Reka (Mett) Petersen on Feb. 26, 1928, in Spencer. She graduated from Summit Township and Spencer High School and later from the American Institute of Business in 1946. She was employed as Secretary at Anderson-Erickson and Dairy Industries in Des Moines.

She married Wilbur D. "Pete" Bennett on Dec. 26, 1948. The couple moved to Ames, Iowa, where she was employed as secretary to the chairperson of the Poultry Department at Iowa State University. The couple moved to Paullina, Iowa, in 1951 and she was secretary to the superintendent of schools there. They moved to Toledo, Iowa, in 1953 and while there she became bookkeeper for Oldsmobile Garage. Char and Pete moved to Sioux City in 1956. She was employed as secretary and bookkeeper by C.F. Lytle Company. Later, Pete and Char formed the Sioux Land Farm Agency Corporation.

Char was a longtime active member of First United Methodist Church. She was an avid golfer and loved playing bridge, reading the newspaper and doing crosswords. She was an avid Iowa State Cyclone fan.

Survivors include a brother, Lindell R. "Pete" (Jackie) Petersen of Spencer; two sisters-in-law, Janice Wachter of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Donna Herweg of Brewer, Maine; a brother-in-law, Jay Colburn of Plano, Texas; nine nieces; three nephews; numerous great-nieces and great-nephews; two godsons, Robert and Richard Lott; and special friends, Jeff and JuLee Buchman of Sioux City.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Pete; and a nephew.