Rogers Co. Obit for: Ruth Rhuana (Knight) Bentley 
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Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives 
Date: 11/13/2002 by: Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
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10/26/2002

Ruth Rhuana (Knight) Bentley

Ruth Rhuana "Granny" Bentley went to be with the Lord on the same day as her 
eldest 
son Jesse. A double funeral service will be 11 a.m., Monday, Oct. 28, 2002, at 
the 
Foyil Baptist Church, where she was a longtime member. Burial will follow at 
Woodlawn Cemetery, under the direction of Musgrove-Merriott-Smith Funeral 
Service. 
Visitation will be 1-6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Granny died Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Claremore Nursing Home at the age of 100.

The daughter of John and Elizabeth Sneed Knight was born Nov. 15, 1901, in 
Houston, AR. 
As a preacher's kid she lived in several towns, mostly attending school in 
Dennard, Ark. 
Just short of her 18th birthday, she married William John Bentley, also a native 
of 
Arkansas. 
They later became known to not only their own grandchildren but friends and 
neighbors 
alike as "Granny" and "Papaw." 

Their wedding vows were exchanged in Dennard under a "big signal tree on a 
knoll.

They moved to Prague when their eldest child, Jess, was a baby, and helped on 
her 
brother-in-law's farm. 

In the late 1920s they moved to Claremore. The family settled in Willeo before 
moving to the Mounds and Foyil area north of Claremore. 

They sold their farm around 1973, and they moved to Tacora Hills on Oologah 
Lake. 

Granny enjoyed doll collecting and treasured her family pictures. 

She spent her time flower and vegetable gardening and sharing them, making rugs, 
and sewing. 

Granny's favorite quote was "Every minute you're mad you lose 60 seconds."

Granny is preceded in death by her husband in 1978; sons, Mack, Junus,and Jess 
Bentley and his wife, Lela, brother, Johnny Knight; sister, Gertie Scott; and 
half-sister, Annie Archer.

She is survived by daughter, Edith Ward and husband, Cletis of Foyil, sons, J.W. 
Bentley and wife, Sam of Colorado Springs,and Basil Bentley and wife, Josephine 
of Claremore daughter-in-law, Gussie Bentley of Claremore; 23 grandchildren 
56 great-grandchildren and 67 great-great-grandchildren
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for allowing us to post these obits on the Rogers Co., OK USGenwebpages
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