Rogers Co. Obit for: Junus Chester Bentley
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Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives 
Date: 7/01/2002 by: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com
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6/18/2002

Junus Chester Bentley



Funeral service for Junus Chester Bentley was 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at Foyil Baptist Church. 
Burial followed in the Garden of Love at Oakhaven Memorial Gardens in Claremore, under the direction 
of Musgrove-Merriott-Smith Funeral Service.

Junus died Saturday, June 15, at his home at the age of 81.

The son of William John and Ruthie Rhuanna Knight Bentley was born March 4, 1921 in Prague, Okla. 

The family moved to the Claremore area when Junus was 7 years old and Junus attended Sequoyah 
schools. 

He married Gussie Pearl Bradshaw on June 7, 1941 in Claremore. 

Junus served in the U.S. Army in Japan during World War II, and was a member of the VFW. 

Junus raised his family on a farm along with working various construction jobs. 

In 1967, he started National Construction Company and is well known for many of the bridges and streets 
in Rogers County. Many of the men working today in concrete construction have been mentored by Mr. 
Bentley. 

He was saved as a young man and baptized in Blue Creek in the 1940s. 

He and Gussie are members of Foyil Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon, youth leader and 
Sunday School teacher and director. 

The church youth always looked forward to seeing him as he always had a bag of candy. 

Junus enjoyed woodwork crafts, gardening, hunting and fishing and especially playing with the grandkids. 

He touched many lives with his generosity, love and kind heartedness; always showing a deep abiding love 
for God. 

If everyone had a husband and father like Junus, what a wonderful world this would be.

Junus is preceded in death by his father, W.J. Bentley; son, Bobby June Bentley; brother, Mack Bentley; 
and son-in-law, Ira Green.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Gussie of the home; mother, Rhuanna (Granny) Bentley of 
Claremore; son, Jerry Bentley and wife Debbie of Claremore; daughters, Jeanne Gramman and husband 
Mike of Kansas City, Mo., Joanne Green of Claremore, Patty Halfhill and husband Don of Claremore, 
and Melissa Owens and husband Scott of Oklahoma City; 15 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; 
sister, Edith Ward of Claremore; brothers, Jess Bentley and Basil Bentley, both of Claremore, and J.W. 
Bentley of Colorado Springs, Colo.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Green Country, 1005 W. Archer Dr., Claremore, 
OK, 74017.
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