Lovina Moore-Bentley (Banks)

Parowan Times, June 6, 1928 -- GOOD WOMAN PASSES AFTER MUCH SUFFERING -- Mrs. Lavina B. Bentley, life long resident of this community and mother of Mayor John W. Bentley passed from this life between six and seven o'clock on Monday morning as a termination of a seigh of ill health which began about four years ago. Diabetes which eventually developed into Brights disease was the cause of her suffering which for the last three weeks or thereabouts, was almost unendurable. For eighteen days her condition was such that the end was almost hourly expected. Members of the family who were with her had left her sleeping for a few minutes while they ate breakfast and when they returned they found that life had departed.

She is survived by her husband, Wm. Bentley, and nine children, John W., George E., Mrs. Alice Lowder, Mrs. Fannie Stubbs, Mrs. Clayton Taylor, and Miss Effie Bentley all of Parowan, Wilford Bentley of Loa, Utah,
Mrs. Lucy Eyre, of Minersville, Mrs. Zelma Huffaker of Mesa Arizona, and Mrs. Maude Whiting of Provo, as well as by a brother, Wm. Banks of Provo, and a sister, Sarah Bentley of Parowan.

She observed her sixty-sixth birthday on January 12th of this year. Born in Parowan, the daughter of Wm. E. and Ellen Banks, she has made her home here ever since, and has been one of the substantial, unassuming, good women of the community. To the bereaved family and friends, the sympathy of the community goes out at this time, and particularly to her aged husband whose declining years will be the sadder for her absence.

Funeral service was held on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the East Ward tabernacle with Bishop Marsden presiding. Speakers were Luella R. Adams, John Stevens and Simon A. Matheson, all of whom praised the wonderful character of the departed one and offered words of comfort and consolation to the bereaved ones. Two poems by Maude Lyman, one of which was written on the occasion of Mr. and Mrs. Bentley's golden wedding celebration recently and one at her death were read by Miss Alys Adams and sentiments by Marian A. Gudmundsen were given, L.J. Adams sang in his usual pleasing way, and the choir sang three numbers.

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Parowan times
6/6/1928

GOOD WOMAN PASSES AFTER MUCH SUFFERING

Mrs. Lavina B. Bentley, life long resident of this community and mother of Mayor John W. Bentley passed from this life between six and seven o'clock on Monday morning as a termination of a seigh of ill health which began about four years ago. Diabetes which eventually developed into Brights disease was the cause of her suffering which for the last three weeks or thereabouts, was almost unendurable. For eighteen days her condition was such that the end was almost hourly expected. Members of the family who were with her had left her sleeping for a few minutes while they ate breakfast and when they returned they found that life had departed.

She is survived by her husband, Wm. Bentley, and nine children, John W., George E., Mrs. Alice Lowder, Mrs. Fannie Stubbs, Mrs. Clayton Taylor, and Miss Effie Bentley all of Parowan, Wilford Bentley of Loa, Utah,
Mrs. Lucy Eyre, of Minersville, Mrs. Zelma Huffaker of Mesa Arizona, and Mrs. Maude Whiting of Provo, as well as by a brother, Wm. Banks of Provo, and a sister, Sarah Bentley of Parowan.

She observed her sixty-sixth birthday on January 12th of this year. Born in Parowan, the daughter of Wm. E. and Ellen Banks, she has made her home here ever since, and has been one of the substantial, unassuming, good women of the community. To the bereaved family and friends, the sympathy of the community goes out at this time, and particularly to her aged husband whose declining years will be the sadder for her absence.

Funeral service was held on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the East Ward tabernacle with Bishop Marsden presiding. Speakers were Luella R. Adams, John Stevens and Simon A. Matheson, all of whom praised the wonderful character of the departed one and offered words of comfort and consolation to the bereaved ones. Two poems by Maude Lyman, one of which was written on the occasion of Mr. and Mrs. Bentley's golden Wedding celebration recently and one at her death were read by Miss Alys Adams and sentiments by Marian A. Gudmundsen were given, L.J. Adams sang in his usual pleasing way, and the choir sang three numbers.

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