South Bend Tribune June 7, 1973
Harry T. Bennitt
Service for Harry T. Bennitt, 89, of New Carlisle,
who died at 11:40
a.m. Tuesday at the Anderson Sanitarium, LaPorte, after a six-week
illness,
will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Olive Chapel Church of Christ. Dr.
Ernest
Geist will officiate and burial will be in Olive Chapel Cemetery. Friends
may
call after noon Thursday and until 11 a.m. Friday at the Haverstock
Funeral
Chapel, LaPorte, and from noon until services at the church.
Mr. Bennitt was born Nov. 14, 1883, in Wills Twp.
LaPorte County, and
lived all his life in this area. He was married Feb. 11, 1906, to Fannie
May
Halter, who died Dec. 24, 1954. On April 14, 1956, in New Carlisle he was
married to Elva Rogers, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Furmon
of
Coloma, Ill., and Harry of Angola; a daughter, Mrs. Carl Johnson of
LaPorte; a
stepson, Clark Rogers of New Carlisle, seven grandchildren and 12
great-grandchildren; and a brother, Clarence of Tamp Springs, Fla. Mr.
Bennitt was a
member of the Olive Chapel Church and was retired from the Oliver Corp.
of South
Bend.