Obit of Bentley, B.O. - Choctaw County, Oklahoma

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::White Deer Cemetery--White Deer TX

B.O. Bentley

B.O. Bentley, 89, of Amarillo and a former resident of White Deer, died
Sunday, May 31, 1998.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in CarmichaelWhatley Funeral
Directors Colonial Chapel in Pampa with Dr. J. Pat Kennedy, minister of
St. Luke's Presbyterian Church of Amarillo, officiating. Burial will be in
White Deer Cemetery with graveside rites by the Masonic Lodge.

Mr. Bentley was born in Swink, Okla., and moved to White Deer in the
1920s. He retired in 1974 after more than 37 years as plant superintendent
for Dorchester Gas Producing Company. He moved to Amarillo in 1974 where
he was a member of Tascosa County Club.

Mr. Bentley was a Baptist. He was past president and zone chairman of the
White Deer Lions Club and past president of the White Deer School Board.
He was a member and past worshipful master of the White Deer Masonic Lodge
No. 1188 AF&AM.

He married Ethel Simmons in 1932. She died in 1996. He also was preceded
in death by a daughter, Barbara Imke.

Survivors include a son, David Bentley of Lubbock; two daughters, Linda
Peirce and Beverly Bentley, both of Amarillo; nine grandchildren; and four
greatgrandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. today at the funeral
home.

The family requests memorials be to Cal Farley's Boys Ranch, P.O. Box
1890, Amarillo, Texas, 79174; or the White Deer Cemetery Association, P.O.
Box 273, White Deer, Texas, 79097; or the Texas Boys Ranch in Lubbock.

Amarillo Globe News 2 Jun 1998
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