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Nellie Bray Bennett
RS. Nelli e B. Bennett, widow of the
late Rev. E li P . Bennett of the
Deti·oit Conference, died May 22 a t
Maumee, Ohio, where for the past five
year s sh e had ma de her home with
her da ughter, Mrs. Willard Zook. She
was born l\Iay 15, 1872, at Mt. Pleasant,
1\Iichigan. Her f ather, R ev. N. L. Bray
was a member of the Michiga n Conference for over fifty years. She graduated from Northwest ern University in
1896, and was a member of. the P hi Beta
Ka ppa organization. While on the
campu s s he met R ev. Mr. Bennet t , whom
s he married in 1898. Their f irst pastorate was Firs t Church, Sou th Bend,
India na.
In 1903 he was transferred to Cass
Avenue Church, Detroit . They served in
sequence the foll owing churches: First
Church, Port Huron; First Church, Saginaw; Fi r st Church, Pontiac; Sault Ste.
Marie; Howell; Trinity, Flint. His death
occurred in 1928. Following her husband's death, Mrs. Bennett served for six
years as a matron at t he Methodist Home
at Chelsea. With declining strength she \..
made her home with her daughter Doris ~
in Adria n, where she was active in the :.?
Dependable Bible Class and the W .S.C.S.
In 1953 they moved to Ma umee, Ohio, .YJ
and trans ferred her membership to The ~
Method ist Church at Perrysburg. She "
died at the Beebe Sanitarium in Maumee. ~;'
Funeral services were conducted by ~
Dt·. Willia m C. S. P ellowe at the MaisonDardenne Mortu ary, Maumee on Sat- U
urday, May 24. P rayer was offered by ' - .
Rev. Harry Gintzer, interim pastor of 1)5.
the Perrys blll'g church. Burial was in ~
Riverview Cemetery, South Bend, 'IIi\.·
Ind ia na, in the family plot where her
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husband and father and mother a re
buried. She is survived by her daugh ter,
1\Irs. Doris B. Zook, social worker with
Child and Fam ily Service Agency in
Toledo; Chester C. Bennett, Profes sor
of Clinical P sychology at Bos ton University; and Francis P. Ben nett , h ead of the
City Planning Commission, Detroit; and
four gr andchildr en.
Talented, consect·ated, a woman of
vis ion and a fr iendly dispos it ion, sh e
made a s uccess of her cm·eeL' as a minis ter's wife a nd the moth er of three
children. She brought the graciousness
o( Christian womanhood to the parson;,
age hom e. " Servant of God, well done.
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Bennett, Eli P.