Earline H. Bennett

Earline Holliday Bennett, widow of Thomas Bennett, was born April 16, 1909, in Clarendon County, a daughter of the late Edward and Amelia Brock Holliday. She entered into eternal rest on Friday, July 9, 2010, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Mrs. Bennett was educated in the public schools of Georgetown County. She resided in Florence before moving to Harlem, N.Y., where she spent most of her life. She was a longtime member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Surviving are her loving caretakers who she considered children, William and Julia Ann Ballard of Sumter; sister, Sadie Austin of New York; brother, E.J. (Evelyn) Holliday of New York; five nieces, Amelia Saunders, Ellanora Baxter and Minnie Boyd, all of Pinewood, Bessie (Robert) Carlisle of Jamaica, N.Y., and Dorothy Hunt of Richmond, Va.; two nephews, Louis Singleton of Sumter and Maris (Dorothy) Singleton of Pinewood; and a host of other relatives and friends.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by five sisters, Susan Singleton, Fronie Olive, Edna Hargrow, Millie Jackson and Odell Holliday; two brothers, Robert Lee Holliday and Maris Holliday; and two nephews, Franklin and Ronald Singleton.

Funeral services were held at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witness, 100 Lynam Road, Sumter, with Brother A. Johnson officiating. Interment followed in Hillside Memorial Park.

Job’s Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.