Lester Alva “Alva” Bennett

Birth	29 Dec 1907 Summers County, West Virginia, USA
Death	26 Mar 1983 (aged 75) Summers County, West Virginia, USA
Burial	Bennett Family Cemetery Summers County, West Virginia, USA
Memorial ID	86664060 · View Source

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Hinton News, Tuesday, March 29, 1983
Page 8, Column 1

BENNETT

Lester Alva Bennett, 76, died Saturday March 26 in a Hinton hospital after a long illness.

Born Dec. 29, 1907, in Raleigh County, he was a son of the late Meredith P. and Hattie Francis Plumley Bennett.

Mr. Bennett was a member of the Brooks Baptist Church at Hinton.

Survivors include his wife, Margaret Mae Bennett; five sons, James Robert Bennett, Meredith Bennett, Everette Bennett, Michael Bennett and William Bennett, all of Hinton; two daughters, Lovotta Graham and Drema Martin, both of Hinton; a brother, Issac Bennett of Hinton, and six sisters, Nerma Graham, Verna Adkins, Hattie Sears, Zona Graham, Ada Bragg and Dona Richmond, all of Hinton; 26 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

Services were held Tuesday March 29 at 1 p. m. in the E. M. Meadows Funeral Home chapel at Hinton with the Revs. Ray Martin and Ray Garten officiating. Burial followed in the Bennett Cemetery on Tug Creek Mountain in Hinton.

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Meredith Price Bennett

1879–1950
Hattie Francis Plumley Bennett

1881–1936

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Marguerite Mae Adkins Bennett

1922–1993

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Ada Mae Bennett Bragg

1894–1986
Abraham Bennett

1900–1956
Jacob McKinley Bennett

1900–1961
Roy Green Bennett

1901–1946
Bertha Dorothy Bennett Bragg

1902–1976
Nerma Bennett Graham

1908–1995
Carrie Kathleen Bennett Graham

1913–1976
Ocie Verna Bennett Adkins

1915–1990
Zona Lee Bennett Graham

1919–1989
Dona Pearl Bennett Richmond

1921–1990
Isaac Bennett

1922–1985
Basil Bennett

1924–1924
Hattie Francis Bennett Sears

1925–2006

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Lovottia Mae Bennett Graham

1944–2009
Beatrice Bennett

1946–1946
Everett Lee Bennett

1947–1986
Tommy Bennett

1952–2020
William Joseph Bennett

1953–2011

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Created by: Russell E Bennett Jr
Added: 12 Mar 2012
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