John Lee Bennett^[1]

1931 - 1980  (48 years)

• Name	John Lee Bennett
  Born	11 Oct 1931	Madison, Iowa, United States
  Gender	Male
  Died	13 Aug 1980	Englewood, Aropaho, Colorado, United States
  Person ID	I8667810566	Master Tree | Isaac Bennett Descendants
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2008

  
  

  Father	Andrew Floyd Bennett,   b. 21 Dec 1902, Douglas, Madison, Iowa, United States ,   d. 1 Jan 1987, Winterset, Madison, Iowa, United States  (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Maude Gertrude Reid,   b. 23 Aug 1908, Madison, Iowa, United States ,   d. 11 Dec 1995, Louisville, Boulder, Colorado, United States  (Age 87 years)
  Married	27 Nov 1930	DeSoto, Dallas, Iowa, United States
  Family ID	F5350798246	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mabel Louise Riegle,   b. 09 Dec 1932, Fayette, Iowa, United States
  Married	13 May 1952	Earlham, Madison, Iowa, United States
  Children	+ 1. Katherine Elaine Bennett   2. James Andrew Bennett   3. Daniel Mark Bennett
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2008
  Family ID	F8026690552	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 11 Oct 1931 - Madison, Iowa, United States Married - 13 May 1952 - Earlham, Madison, Iowa, United States Died - 13 Aug 1980 - Englewood, Aropaho, Colorado, United States  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S8072387507] Carol Bennett-Gillespe. Notes from Mabel Bennett: John had no brothers, sisters or first cousins. He had his first heart attack at 39 years of age. He smoked since he was 14. He "quit" after his heart attack. he still smoked a pipe, cigars (and cigarettes, when I wasn't around). John went to North River Stone School. The stone was quarried off of the Bennettt farm. His Dad had attended there. His Mother had taught there, and he graduated from 8th grade the year it closed. The next year has some questions, but he went to live with Jose and Pat Hoskins and attended Earlham High School. he only went one semester and he quit and came home to live with his parents. The DeSoto bus came down the road and he stared as a freshman at DeSoto High School. That is when I met him. Though he said he came over to the Riegle Hatchery in DeSoto and saw this girl jumping from one stack of feed in sacks to another and thought it looked fun. She also had roller saktes and just flew around the building (I was spoiled). John's folks didn't have much income (no one did). He wore shirts made out of feed sacks (My dresses were of the same material). We only had 10 in our graduating class. Seven of them started together. I was John's girl the last 2 years of high school though we didn't really date much. My Dad didn't allow me to date. We both played basketball and we would sit together on the bus on out of town trips. He worked out of town some that summer and dated other girls. I entered nursing training, an dated some one else. He entered the army in the fall. We decided to get married when he was home on leave in May of 1952 and did. I went to Virginia with him. He was sent to England and I came back to Madison County. I lived in Grand "Mac's", Bertha and Sam Hoeness's basement till I could get back in nursing school. I had Katherine March 16, 1953. John was discharged the fall of 1954 and we lived in a trailer in Shady Rest Trailer Park on E. 14th St. in Des Moines. We moved the trailer to my folks' farm in Nov. of 1954. He decided to enter Wartburg College the fall of 1956. We took a year off in 1988 and farmed my parents' farm. I worked in Des Moines. We went back to college in 1959 and on to Wartburg Seminary in 1960. We had Dan Dec. 31, 1960 and John had problems with Greek, so we left Iowa and moved to Colorado in March of 1962. He worked at a golf course for a few months and back to the tire business (He had been working for Firestone, when Jim was born). We had loved Colorado though we did go to see his parents about three times a year.