Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bentley, Henrietta Ruth Warren 214618

Birth: 03/18/1898 Death: 06/08/1942 Marriage:

Cemetery: Mt. Tabor (SOUTHEAST)

Record Source: The Paris News, Texas Death Certificate

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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/18/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Monday, June 8, 1942: “Sudden death of Mrs. James H. Bentley, due to a heart attack, occurred about 10:30 a.m. Monday at her home, 97 S. 17th St., while she was making a telephone call. Her mother, Mrs. J. E. Warren, with whom she made her home, and an uncle William Norman, visiting here from Wynnewood, Okla., were in the house at the time. She was formerly Miss Henrietta Warren, and had taught expression here several years. Funeral service will be held probably Tuesday at Manton-Fry Funeral Home by the Rev. Lawrence Malloy of First Presbyterian Church, and interment will be made in Mt. Tabor Cemetery near Emberson by the side of her husband, a former county Treasurer of Lamar County. The time had not been definitely set, awaiting word from her only sister, Mrs. Evelyn W. Williams, who, with her daughter, Dorothy, is now employed in Washington, D. C. a graduate of Paris High School, Mrs. Bentley for a time taught at J. G. Wooten School here and later became an expression teacher. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and of the American Legion Auxiliary, besides being active in other social organizations and groups.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Henrietta Ruth Bentley
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 08 Jun 1942
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 18 Mar 1898
Birthplace: Wynnewood, Oklahoma
Father’s Name: J E Warren
Mother’s Name: Bernice Odele
Certificate Number: 27538
GS Film number: 2137102
Digital Folder Number: 005145775
Image Number: 03144
Citing this Record
“Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3DS-65V : 5 December 2014), Bernice Odele in entry for Henrietta Ruth Bentley, 08 Jun 1942; citing certificate number 27538, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,137,102.

Buried next to James H. Bentley.

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