Technical 5th Grant Bentley served in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II Service started: service started as 01011942 Unit(s): unit1; unit2 Service ended: service ended as dd mmm yyyy
"Grant D. Bentley, of Hill Top, Colorado, who is in training in the Army Forces Technical School at Amarillo Field, in Texas. Has been promoted from Pvt. First Class to Technical Sth Grade, It has just been announced.........." :
"Friends of Private Grant Bentley will be interested to learn that he is In Shepherd Field . Texas."
After The War
8 April 1950 Elizabeth, Elbert, Colorado
Enumeration District: 20-2
Enumerated April 8th by H. D. Braumlet
Area: "North of Elizabeth parallel to Running Creek"
Head of the household was
Dick Bentley, age: 57 years, South Dakota, occupation: Farmer, Industry: Farming, hours a week worked: 35, Is he a Vet? Yes WWI
Marie Bentley Mother F 49 years Colorado
Son, Grant D Bentley, age: 29 years, birth Year (Estimated): 1921, birthplace: Colorado, marital Status: Single, occupation: Farm Hand, Industry: Farming, hours a week worked: 35 (the section for his Veteran answer was taken by his father)
"......................Douglas County and Elizabeth artists comprised about half of the exhibitors at the festival. They include: Mary Cornish, Margaret and Grant Bentley, "
"Grant Bentley graduated from Elizabeth Union High School, Elizabeth, Colorado in May of 1939. After graduation, Grant continued his work on the family ranch.
He farmed the fields and worked cows with his father, Dick.
During World War II, Grant served in the Army Air Forces.
He later developed a talent for welding and eventually established Bentley's Welding Shop.
Grant was also a noted metal artist. Grant Bentley married twice in his lifetime.
First to Helen Kraemer. After her death, he married Margaret King.
Burial : Grant Bentley does not currently have a grave marker at the cemetery, but the Elizabeth Cemetery Board has conformed he is buried at Mountainview lot 125.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X743-MVC : accessed 10 May 2023), Grant D Bentley in household of Dick Bentley, Elizabeth, Elbert, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2, sheet , line , family , NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll ; FHL microfilm . Affiliate Film Number: 241 --Digital Folder Number: 004950304 --Microfilm Number: 2339976 --Image Number: 00014 --Indexing Batch: N03805-2
↑1940 Lower Running Creek "United States Census, 1940", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:VR64-42W : Tue Apr 04 11:54:58 UTC 2023), Entry for Dick Bentley and Marie Bentley, 1940. Sheet Letter: A --Sheet Number: 2 --Affiliate Publication Number: T627 Digital Folder Number: 005449365 --Image Number: 430
↑url address--Digital Folder Number: 108941836 -Image Number: 7 "United States 1950 Census", database, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:6FMV-78WV : Sat Mar 25 02:18:40 UTC 2023), Entry for Dick Bentley and Marie Bentley, 8 April 1950.
↑ ancestry.com U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/230407019/grant-demont-bentley: accessed 9 May 2023), memorial page for Grant Demont Bentley (21 Feb 1921–13 Nov 2008), Find a Grave Memorial ID 230407019, citing Elizabeth Cemetery, Elizabeth, Elbert County, Colorado, USA; Maintained by TheHistoryQuest (contributor 49915120).
Sorry guys, no photos of Grant's headstone turned out. Guess I need glasses. Will stop by and take better ones asap......... Thank all 7 of the Fire Station Crew for digging the holes, measuring/leveling and mostly carrying the 213# stones to where they needed to be placed.
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> Date: December 9, 2023 at 4:28:05 PM MST
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> Grant Bentley was a founder of UCCPH. He created the ornamental ironwork that you can see in the sanctuary today, on the hanging light fixtures and in front of the choir loft. He was a corporal in the Army during WWII and his father, Dick Bentley was an Army private in WWI. They are buried in the Elizabeth cemetery, where yesterday headstones were placed on their graves in a moving dedication of a two gun salute and the playing of Taps. The V A provides marble headstones for Veterans without headstones. If you want to know more about this, talk to Jean Sherer. I’m
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It would be really wonderful if we could find someone to do a headstone for the wife and mother Marie Elizabeth Demont-Bentlry who is laid to rest next to her husband Dick...........
I submitted a request for Grant's military service to the Nat'l Archives, couple weeks a go and received the response today..... "His records were of the years that the fire destroyed all" .. So they sent me 2 :Certificate of Military Service" Certifications of his enlistment date/ "Honorable Discharge" date and his rank. Which is enough to now submit the VA 40-1330 for a MILITARY HEADSTONE FOR him at Elizabeth Cemetery, should take 6-8 weeks from 7th of September cause I mailed it today................