mildred jean (eastham) bennett
Bennett, Jean Mildred, age 93,
passed away November 23, 2013 in California after a brief illness. She
was born on November 14, 1920 in Coatesville, IN to Lee Orville and
Agnes Minter Eastham. She was a graduate of Amo High School. She was an
accomplished pianist and vocalist and played the organ at the
Coatesville United Methodist Church and sang with a DePauw University
Choir. She worked for Indiana Bell Telephone Company and for banks in
Coatesville and Greencastle. She was a member of the Order of Eastern
Star and Delta Sigma Kappa sorority. She lived most of her life in
Indiana but moved to Arizona after retirement where she was a member of
the Velda Rose United Methodist Church and a volunteer at the Banner
Baywood Medical Center in Mesa, AZ. She loved to travel and visited
Europe, Central America, and Africa. She was preceded in death by her
husband, Irvine (Dan) Bennett. She will be greatly missed by her son
and daughter-in-law, Myron and Sharyl Heavin in California and their
three children Bruce Heavin, Holley Steves, and Kristie Nguyen, and
four great-grandchildren; and by a daughter and son-in-law, Colleen and
Marvin Smitherman of Wisconsin and their two children, Todd Smitherman
and Teri Slick. Visitation will be held on Sunday, December 8, 2013
from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the Bousley-Hays Funeral Home, Coatesville
with burial in the Coatesville Cemetery. The family requests that in
lieu of flowers, donations be made to charity. -