Lovie Dean Montgomery Bennett

Lovie Dean Montgomery Bennett



Services celebrating the life of Lovie Dean Montgomery Bennett will be held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, 2015, in The Chapel of Hixson Brothers, Pineville, with Reverend Randy Nichols and Reverend Dennis Snoddy officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Visitation will be observed from 10:00 a.m. until time of service.

Pallbearers honored to serve include Chad Bennett, Jeremy Graham, Skeeter Montgomery, Shad Montgomery, Mike Montgomery, Bobby Zangla and Kole Graham.

Lovie Dean Montgomery Bennett was born August 10, 1933 in Bellwood Louisiana in Natchitoches Parish to Loy Montgomery, Sr. and Joyce Sawyer Montgomery, who precede her in death.

She is also preceded in death by her husband of 39 years, Clyde H. Bennett, Sr. and her daughter, Debra Ann Bennett Zangla, who died at the age of 18, from an automobile accident.

She is survived by her daughter, Janet Bennett and her son Clyde Bennett, Jr.; granddaughter, Deanna Debra Graham and husband, Jeremy; grandson, Chad William Bennett and wife, Heather; great grandsons, Kole and Cade; great granddaughters, Bailey and Hadley; step granddaughter, Wendy Mitchem Fitzgerald; step great grandsons, Mason and Maddox; cousins and childhood companions she treasured as siblings, Dorothy Montgomery Nichols, Doyle Montgomery and wife, Penny, Billy Montgomery, Ronnie Montgomery and wife Bea.

Her grandchildren and great grandchildren were the loves of her life, especially in her later years as her health failed.

She graduated from Tech University, Ruston, with a Bachelor Degree in Elementary Education and from LSU with a Master Degree 30 plus in Educational Supervision. She belonged to the Alpha Delta Kappa Sorority and was active until her declining health. Her teaching career was at Acadian Elementary and Brasher Elementary in Rapides Parish, focusing on Reading and Social Studies.

She was one of the recipients on the National Elementary Teacher of the Year Award in 1973 and was instrumental in introducing the Federal Title I Reading Program in Rapides Parish which resulted in her writing and having published several aides for the Science Research Association of Chicago Illinois. She retired from Rapides Parish with 27 years of teaching.

She was a past member of Baptist Temple in Alexandria where she taught Sunday school. She was the Director of Baptist Women's Missionary Union. Upon moving to Ball, LA, following her retirement, she joined Kingsville Baptist Church, where she was a director of the Senior Adults Sunday school.Her Christian faith sustained her through the deaths of her daughter, husband and parents.

She and her husband traveled the U. S. extensively up until his death and she then traveled with her cousin, Dorothy Nichols, making several trips to Europe. Her love of travel played a large role in her choice of teaching Social Studies in school.

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