Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bentley, Mary Jo Roberts 253151

Birth: 10/08/1899 Death: 08/31/1944 Marriage:

Cemetery: See Notes

Record Source: Texas Death Certificate, The Paris News

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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. (12/17/2025)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, September 1, 1944, p. 1, 5: “ACCIDENT VICTIM DIES THURSDAY. Mrs. C. E. Bentley Of Detroit Suffers Fatal Skull Fracture. Mrs. C. E. Bentley of Detroit, 41 died at 9:10 p.m. Thursday at St. Joseph’s Hospital where she was brought after a traffic accident Monday night. She was unconscious, and examination later showed she had suffer a skull fracture. Funeral service will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Baptist Church at Detroit, the Rev. T. W. Mathis officiating, and Brown Roden Funeral Home making interment in Detroit Cemetery. Robert Pierce, Arthur Bivens, Odie Elliston, Willard Hudson, Ed Jones and Bud Dollins will be pallbearers. Mrs. Bentley, the former Miss Mary Jo Roberts, was the daughter of Joe Lee Roberts now of Paris. She leaves, besides her husband and father, one brother Hassell Roberts of Detroit. No official report on the accident was available Friday morning from Paris city police, and none had been made to Lamar or Red River County officials. Mrs. Bentley, her husband and Frank Norris, all of Detroit, were admitted to the hospital about 8:20 p.m. Monday, the two men remaining there overnight after having first aid treatment for cuts and bruises. The accident occurred east of Detroit, and not near Deport as was first reported, and a traveling man passing by brought the injured three to the hospital here, according to unofficial accounts. The automobile in which they were riding is said to have struck a butane gas truck parked without lights on the side of the highway. Two Negroes injured in the crash were reported treated by a physician at Detroit.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Mary Jo Bentley
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 31 Aug 1944
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 08 Oct 1899
Birthplace: Kentucky
Father’s Name: Joe Lee Roberts
Mother’s Name: Fannie Lassiter
Certificate Number: 39279
GS Film number: 2137816
Digital Folder Number: 005144838
Image Number: 00816
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KS1M-RW8 : 5 December 2014), Mary Jo Bently, 31 Aug 1944; citing certificate number 39279, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,137,816.

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