Mabel Godfrey Bennett, Obituary, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: Riser Funeral Home
Date: July 8, 2004



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Obituary of Mabel Godfrey Bennett

Services for Mabel Godfrey Bennett, age 98 of Columbia will be
held at 2 p.m., Thursday, July 8, 2004 from the First United Methodist 
Church in Columbia with Rev. Jack McKeithen and Rev. Pam Roy officiating.  
Interment will follow in the Columbia Hill Cemetery.
    
Mrs. Bennett was born in Olla on January 6, 1906 to the union
of Randolph and Lillie Jarrell Godfrey and died Tuesday, July 6,
2004 at Avalon Place in Monroe.
    
She was a retired beautician.  She was a member of the First
United Methodist Church in Columbia since 1949.  She served as
communion steward, choir member and shared in the jail ministery
for many years.  
    
She was preceded in death by her husband: William Howard
Bennett and her grandson: Bobby Bennett.
     
Survivors include her son: Billy Bennett of Columbia, her daughter:
Dot Bennett Hoben of Monroe, her grandchildren: Tommy Davis, Rick
Davis and his wife: Melanie, Cheryl Rainwater and her husband: Art,
Paula Atwell and her husband: David, Julie Hoben and Clay Bennett
and his wife: Cindy, eleven great-grandchildren, her brother: J.E.Godfrey
of Winnsboro and her sister: Marjorie McLemore of Monroe.
    
Pallbearers will be David Erskine, Art Rainwater, Bobby Rainwater,
David Atwell, Bob McIlwain and Charles Simons.
    
Visitation will be Wednesday from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. and Thursday
from 9 a.m. until noon at Riser Funeral Home, 7131 Hwy 165, Columbia.