Obituaries:  Mrs. E. K. (Hattie) Bennett, Sabine Parish       B-530
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 7, 1998
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mrs. E. K. (Hattie) Bennett

  Mrs. E. K. (Hattie) Bennett of Longview, Texas, died Saturday,
Oct. 3, at a local hospital.

  Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 5, at the
Rader Funeral Home Chapel. Interment followed at Memory Park
Cemetery. Dr. Solan Gentry, and the Rev. DeWayne Beaty
officiated.

  Mrs. Bennett was born April 18, 1907, in Florien, and had been a
resident of Longview, Texas since 1930. She was a homemaker, and
a retired secretary at the First National Bank of Longview,
Texas. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Longview,
the Longview Garden Club, and the Aaron Burleson Chapter of the
DAR. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett owned the E. K. Bennett Company in
Longview, Texas.

  Those desiring to do so, may make memorial contributions to the
American Cancer Society, Gregg North Unit, P.O. Box 906,
Longview, Texas, 75606.

  Survivors include three nieces, Kay Cunningham of Longview,
Texas, Louise Troth of Tyler, Texas, and Ann and husband John
Walker of Longview; two nephews, Ed and wife Betty Sue Bennett of
Holly Lake Ranch, and Jack and wife Sherry Carlton of Longview,
Texas; grand nieces and nephews, Lorrie and Mike Ford of
Longview, Texas, Lesle and Tony Thompson of Rusk, Capt. Bennett
and Joanie Browning of Honolulu, Hawaii, Eric and Jackie Sailor
of Texarkana, Chris and Joy Carton of Haughton, David Carlton of
Charleston, S. C., Sharon and Daryl Boles of Longview, Texas,
Katryn and Cran Endsley of Nacogdoches, Texas, John David Walker
of Longview, Texas, and Steven Walker of College Station, Texas;
several great-great nieces and nephews; and companion, Allan V.
McCray of Longview, Texas.

  Mrs. Bennett was preceded in death by her husband, Mr. E. K.
Bennett in 1985.

  LeRoy Rader Funeral Home, Longview, Texas.