Living

Living married Living. [Group Sheet]

Keith married Living [Group Sheet]

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Name: John Russell Benner
Gender: Male
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Birth Date: 03 Jan 1904
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Father's Name: James E Benner
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Mother's Name: Caroline S Gardner
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I00798-2
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 740456
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Collection: Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915

1910 Census - Chelsea, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M228-L2X
Household Gender Age Birthplace
SELF Walter A Okeefe M 47y Massachusetts
WIFE Caroline Okeefe F 28y Massachusetts
* SON John R Okeefe M 6y Massachusetts [John Russell Benner]
DAU Dorithy M Okeefe F 4y Massachusetts [Dorothy M. Benner]
SON Martin W Okeefe M 3y Massachusetts
DAU Frances M Okeefe F y 10m Massachusetts
Alexander Stanton M 52y Canada
James Decourcey M 60y Canada
BRO John Okeefe M 45y Massachusetts

Fact:
Sometime before his marriage to Myrtle Grace Williams he changed his surname from BENNER to BENNETT.

1940 Census:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KMM7-9PB
Head John R Bennett M 36 Massachusetts
Wife Myrtle Bennett F 21 Maine
Son Kenneth Bennett M 4 Maine
Daughter Dorothy Bennett F 3 Maine
Son John Bennett M 2 Maine
Son Clyde Bennett M 0 Maine

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Email from Kay -kay.anton123@gmail.com
April 2013
To the best of my recollection, Uncle John came to Boston around 1950-1951 when I was about 9-10 years old. He lived with us for a while, I used to make his lunch for him to take to work the next day. On Fridays when he got paid, he & I would go clothes shopping. He didn't have hardly anything and would try to buy at least a shirt or a pair of pants each payday.
I remember all of this because even though I was just a child, I found it amusing that he had to shop in the 'kids' department for shoes & clothing to get a decent fit. At any rate that explains where he was when your husband was growing up. In later years, Joey came to Boston, then Clyde, and I think Kenneth. Joey & Clyde stayed, but think Kenneth went back to Maine. At the time, I guessed he came to Boston for 'work' to support his large family, but as an adult am now thinking there must have been a separation or divorce.

John married Myrtle Grace Williams about 1935. Myrtle (daughter of Garfield A. Williams and Ethel Mae Robbins) was born on 10 Feb 1919 in Easton, Aroostook Co, Maine, USA; died on 17 Apr 1992 in Presque Isle, Aroostook Co, Maine, USA; was buried in Blaine, Aroostook Co, Maine, USA (East Blaine Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=118652529

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Name: Jack Gardner
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 27 Apr 1929
Death Date: 27 Apr 1974
SSN: 006205496
Branch 1: NAVY
Enlistment Date 1: 19 May 1946
Release Date 1: 3 Apr 1950

Jack married Kathleen Horr on 7 Aug 1949 in Maine, USA. Kathleen (daughter of James Horr and Mary Devaney) was born on 27 Apr 1930 in Portland, Cumberland Co, Maine, USA; died on 10 Nov 1996 in Portland, Cumberland Co, Maine, USA; was buried in South Portland, Cumberland Co, Maine, USA (Calvary Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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[[Obituary:
Portland Newspapers Nov 11, 1996
Kathleen L. Gardner, 66, of Congress Square Plaza died Sunday at a Portland nursing home.
She was born in Portland, the daughter of James and Mary Devany Horr, and attended South Portland schools.
Mrs. Gardner was a homemaker. Later she attended Pierre's School of Beauty and in the 1960s, operated her own beauty shop on Park Avenue here.
She was a guitarist who performed locally. She enjoyed country crafts and floral arranging.
Mrs. Gardner was secretary of the board at Congress Square Plaza and was a communicant of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
Surviving are a son, Jack L. Gardner of Yonkers, N.Y.; four daughters, Rosalyn G. Lebeda of Portland, Joanne C. Currey of Seattle, Doris G. Parent of Windham and Susan M. Gardner of Del Rio, Texas; three sisters, Jane Pooler of South Portland, Mrs. Robert (Carolyn) Gilman of Westbrook and Mrs. Leo (Linda) White of Windham; 13 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Family prayers will be recited at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday atHay & Peabody Funeral Home, 749 Congress St. A funeral Mass will follow at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, 307 Congress St. Burial will be in New Calvary Cemetery [in South Portland].