Marian Marie Woodhurst


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Brief biography

Marian Marie Woodhurst was born on April 27th 1918 at Summit Center, Jackson County in Michigan of parents Walter (1) Woodhurst and his first wife Grace Curtis.

The US 1920 Census finds her living at age "1 year 10 months" with her parents in Pulaski township, Jackson County, Michigan.

A researcher's report states the following: she married Grant Jerry Bentley in Tekonsha Parish, Tekonsha, Michigan on August 5th 1937; he was born in Albion, Michigan on July 23rd 1917, died [or was buried?] on November 17th 1988 and was buried at the Eastlawn Memorial Gardens in Lansing, Michigan ; they produced the children listed below.

Marian Marie died aged 85 on April 29th 2003 at Lansing, where she had lived for 41 years. She was buried at the Eastlawn Memorial Gardens on May 2nd. Her obituary was published on May 1st in The Lansing State Journal, which noted that she had 21 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren and 9 great-great-grandchildren.

Her children by Grant Jerry Bentley

showing their dates of birth where known ...

  1. Patricia Ann Bentley - October 31st 1937
  2. Richard Grant Bentley - February 26th 1939
  3. Jerry Alton Bentley - December 12th 1940
  4. Robert Earl Bentley - August 24th 1951
  5. "Susie" Bentley - deceased by 2003

Patricia Ann married into the Smith surname.