Former long-time Hollister resident.
Former long-time Hollister resident Lucille Taylor Bennett died Thursday, April 17, 2003 in Fresno. She was 85.
Mrs. Bennett was born in Butler, Okla. and later lived in Yuma, Ariz. before moving to Hollister, where she lived for 65 years before moving to Fresno in 1997 to be near family members.
In 1970 she returned to school full-time at Gavilan College, continuing a pattern of higher-education classes that spanned five decades. As a full-time nursing student at Gavilan she made the dean’s list each quarter. After graduating she worked at Hazel Hawkins Hospital while continuing to take classes.
She was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church in Hollister, where she was an elder and a deacon, taught and was superintendent of Sunday school and was a Bible study leader. In Fresno she was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Judy and Tom Tyler of Santa Clara and Janna and Marty Gray of Fresno; her sister, Vivian Bobo of Auburn; her brother, the Rev. William Taylor of Durham; three grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 44 years, Albert S. Bennett, in 1983.
Graveside services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the IOOF Cemetery in Hollister. Memorial services will be held Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Fresno.
Memorials are preferred to the Westminster Presbyterian Church or Nancy Hinds Hospice Home.
