Change/Correction
The associational WMU meeting scheduled for 10:00 in the morning will be at Greenlaw, not New Zion.
Family pictures for a new church directory will be made Wednesday – Saturday at FBC, Kentwood. If you have not scheduled an appointment, please call the church office.
Willie Ruth Stevens Bennett
(March 21, 1921 – April 15, 2012)
Departed this life Sunday, April 15, 2012 after a hospitalization at North Oaks Medical Center. Born March 21, 1921, she had recently celebrated her 91st birthday. Survived by her husband of 67 years, Delmas D. Bennett, daughters, Cheryl A. and Kathleen D. Bennett of Independence, son, the Honorable Bruce C. Bennett and his wife, Linda of Denham Springs, grandchildren, Preston E. Bennett, Rebecca B. Smalley, Brittney E. Bennett, and Landon K. Watts, and great-grandchildren, S. Christian Smalley, Jr., and Madison Smalley. She survived the Great Depression and was a member of Tom Brokaw’s “Greatest Generation”. A devout Christian wife, mother and grandmother, she attended the Church of Christ at Oak Grove, LA. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., Monday, April 16, 2012, and from 8 a.m. until religious services at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Services conducted by Bro. Dale Ziebarth. Interment Loranger Cemetery, Loranger, LA. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.
