Vernon Gene Bennett 1939 - 1996

JOHNSON, BENNETT, BOCK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 12/16/2020 at 09:55:36

Sioux City Journal
12 December 1996

Vernon G. Bennett

CLIMBING HILL, Iowa -

Vernon Gene Bennett, 57, of Climbing Hill died unexpectedly Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1996, in Sioux City.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel, with the Rev. Monty McCoy, Pastor of First Baptist Church of climbing Hill, officiating. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, with a military graveside service conducted by the American Legion Monahan Post 64. Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. today, with the family present from 7 to 9 p.m. and a prayer service at 7:30 p.m., at the funeral home.

Mr. Bennett was born Aug. 4, 1939, in Wichita Falls, Texas, the son of Vernon C. and Buleah (Johnson) Bennett. He graduated from Ryder High School in Whichita Falls, in 1957. He attended Montague County College in Bowie, Texas. He married Sharon L. Bock on July 19, 1966, in Wichita Falls. The couple moved to Sioux City from Carrollton, Texas in June of 1996. He was employed as a highway patrolman stationed out of Wichita Falls. He then became chief deputy of Wichita County. Later, he was a master mechanic with Eagle Pitcher in Denton, Texas, then a self-contractor with All Area Transit in Sioux City. He also had been a contract carpenter in Texas and Iowa.

He received numerous awards while serving with the Texas Highway Patrol. He enjoyed fishing and boating. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1962 to 1966.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters and their husbands, Thresea and Robby Bryan of Carrollton and Cristal and Mike Lewis of Texas; three sons, Michael and his wife Chere Bennett of Carrollton, Robert and his wife Jennie Smith of Valley View, Texas, and Alton Smith of Florida; 16 grandchildren; his mother-in-law, Lenora Bock of Sioux City; and a brother and his wife, Butch and Linda Graves of Wichita Falls.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Dorothy Bennett; and a grandson, Robbie Smith.

Memorials may be sent in care of Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.