Williamson Daily News
Wilburn Bentley, 84, of Virgie, Ky., died Friday, Nov. 9, 2001, at Pikeville Methodist Hospital.

Born May 17, 1917, in Virgie, he was the son of the late William Payne Bentley and Nancy Ann Stewart. He was a retired coal miner, a member of the U.M.W.A., Kentucky Colonel, an ordained Church of Christ minister and member of the Virgie Church of Christ.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Sarah Johnson Marcum. He is survived by his sons Donald, Con and Darrell Bentley, all of Virgie; daughters Sylvia Sowards of Somerset, Ky., Leslie Corrill of
Fairfield, Ohio, and Reble Bevins and Bertina Shortridge, both of Virgie; brothers Ballard Bentley of Neon, Ky., Edd Bentley of Jockhorn, Ky.; sisters Millie Bentley of McRoberts, Ky., and Bonnie Bentley of Deane, Ky.; twenty eight grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren. and one great-great-grandchild.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11, 2001, at Lucas and Hall Funeral Home with the Revs. Johnny King, Dean Lyons, and Roy Hall officiating. Burial will follow in the Annie E. Young Cemetery.

Submitted by
Donna Bentley Pitts
7 August, 2007