Hughes County,

Oklahoma

April 26, 2001
Jack D. BENNETT

Funeral services for Jack D. BENNETT of Holdenville were held April 23 at the Nazarene Church in Holdenville with the Rev. Patrick SMITH officiating.

He was born Feb. 2, 1916 in Holdenville to Henry F. and Lula BENNETT and died April 20 in Southcrest Hospital in Tulsa at the age of 85.

Mr. BENNETT was a builder by trade and a well known guitarist in the Holdenville, Wewoka, Seminole and Ada areas in the 1930’s and early 1940’s, and later in Indianapolis, In. and Tulsa.

He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, having served as an infantry-man in the 43rd Division in New Guinea, and later in the Philippine Islands and the Occupation Forces of Japan with his brother, Harry, in the 836th Engineering Battalion during World War II.
Mr. BENNETT was preceded in death by his parents; his sisters, Maudie GILES and Thelma GORDON; and his brother, Frank A. BENNETT, who died in combat while serving with the 45th Division in Italy in 1943.

Survivors include his wife, Vera, of the home; sisters, Gladys SWINHART and her husband, Melvin , of Holdenville, Willa Mae MINER of Mulberry, Ar. and Betty Lou WHITE of Tulsa; brothers, Henry S. BENNETT of Holdenville and Harry L. BENNETT and his wife, Sally , of Ada; and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were his nephews and friends.
Interment was in the Holdenville Cemetery under the direction of Hudson-Phillips Funeral Home of Holdenville.