Wyatt, Elda May (Bennett)

Name: Wyatt, Elda May (Bennett)
Burial Date: 2005, 11/03
Age at Death: 88
Plot Location: 603 A
Notes: wife of Robert Edmond ‘Bob’, Jr.

Sterling – Elda May Bennett Wyatt, 88, died Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. She was born June 19, 1917, on the family farm, rural Sterling. Parents were John Logan Bennett and Kate Elizabeth ‘Libby’ Updegrove Bennett. Husband, Bob Wyatt Jr. died a year ago, Nov. 4, 2004. Elda is survived by her children: daughter, Sheryl Fulton, Topeka; daughter Carol Kruse and husband, Lonnie, Serling; daughter, Becky Frederick and husband, John, Little Rock, Ark.; son Kent Wyatt and wife, Diane, Abilene; a sister, Alma Fair, Alden; 32 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.

Elda loved music and playing the marimba. She was in a national marimba orchestra, which played in Chicago in the early forties. Elda traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1942, to marry Bob Wyatt Jr. In 1961, they moved back to Sterling so Bob could help run Peoples Savings and Loan. Elda became very busy with her family, her church work, Girl Scouts and later worked at First National Bank. But she always had time to grow a big garden each summer.

Memorial service will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Sterling United Presbyterian Church. There will be a private family burial service in the Sterling Community Cemetery.

Birth:  Jun. 19, 1917
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Death: Oct. 31, 2005
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA

age 88

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Parents:
John Logan Bennett (1887 – 1964)
Katie Elizabeth Updegrove Bennett (1890 – 1989)

Spouse:
Robert Edmond Wyatt, Jr. (_1920 – 2004)

Siblings:
Raymond Lawrence Bennett (____ – 1988)*
Alma L. Bennett Fair (1915 – 2011)*
Elda May Bennett Wyatt (1917 – 2005)
Mildred Audrey Bennett Stout (1920 – 2000)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Plot: 603 A
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Name: Elda May (Bennett) Wyatt
Age at Death: 88
Birth Date: Abt 1917
Death Date: abt 2005
Death Place: Sterling KS
Publication or Record Date: 1 Nov 2005
Publication or Record Place: United States