OBITUARY

Death Comes Suddenly To Mrs. Prudence Bentley

Death came suddenly to Mrs. Prudence Bentley on her farm northeast of Carrollton last Friday night when she was stricken with a heart attack from which she did not rally, death coming at 10:15 p.m.  She was of a pioneer Dallas county family, being the daughter of W. H. and Annie Perry Kennedy and dying on the farm files miles northeast of Carrollton on which she was born fifty-four years ago.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the Union Baptist church. Rev. L. M. Joines conducted the services, and interment being in the family plot at old Frankford cemetery.
Mrs. Bentley is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Irby Jenkins, who with her husband reside on the farm where the mother died; two brothers, Walter E., and Henry L. Kennedy, of Carrollton; and one sister, Mrs. Ed Bowman of Dallas. Her parents are dead, the mother, Aunt Anne as she was familiarly called, dying a couple of years ago.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, February 3, 1933
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams