SULLIVAN COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - John Harrison Bentley, 15 Oct 1976
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John Harrison Bentley was the son of Robert F. Bentley and Sarah Ann Davis.  
He was born in Wilkes County, NC, but had lived in Avery County for many 
years.  John Harrison Bentley was a brother to my Grandmother, Frances Lutitia 
Bentley Calhoun.  Michael Stephen "Steve" Peters.
 
A tribute published in the pages of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tenn.  
Oct. 15, 1976
 
Memorial Obituary - Entered Into Eternal Rest - Friday Oct. 15, 1976
 
John H. Bentley
 
John Harrison Bentley, 88 of 1424 Miller St., died at 6:10 a.m. Friday at
Holston Valley Community Hospital after a short illness.  He was born in
Wilkes County, N.C. and lived in Canton, Ohio for a number years.  He had been
a resident of Kingsport since 1959.  He was a retired employee of the Hoover
Company of Canton, Ohio and attended the Full Gospel Church.  Survivors
include his wife, Mrs. Maud Young Bentley, one daughter, Mrs. Thomas J.
(Frankie) Price Jr., Kingsport, two sons, Russell Edward Bentley, Canton, Ohio
and Robert Church, Newland, N.C., Three grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.

Funeral services for John Harrison Bentley will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday
from Carter's Chapel with Rev. V.D. Stafford, Rev. Robert Brown and Rev. M.A.
Raybon officiating.  Burial will follow in Vale Cemetary.  Graveside services
will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday.  The body will remain at the funeral home
where the family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Saturday.  Contributions
may be made to the Children's Home.  Carter's Chapel Funeral Home is in charge
of arrangements.

They are not lost who find the light of sun and stars and God.  Rest in Peace

I cannot say, and I will not say
That she is dead-she is just away!
With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand,
She has wandered into an unknown land,
And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be, since she lingers there.
And you -O you, who the wildest yearn
For the old time step and glad return,
Think of her faring on, as dear
In the love of There as the love of Here;
Think of her still as the same, I say:
She is not dead-she is just away
                       James Whitcomb Riley