Bentley of Bridgewater formerly of Halifax and Brockton, April 11, 2006, Audrey R. (Gary) Bentley, 84 years. Devoted wife for 55 years of the late Edwin F. Bentley. Loving mother of Dr. Douglas G. Bentley and his fiancée Claire of Bridgewater. Special mother of Barbara A. Jardin of New Bedford and Carol J. Reed of Bridgewater. Grandmother of Ashley, Natalie, Catherine, Keith, Mark, Sandrah and Wendy and great grandmother of seven and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral Service in the Conley Funeral Home, 138 Belmont Street (Rte 123) Brockton Tuesday at 11am. Burial in Pine Hill Cemetery, W. Bridgewater. Visiting hours Monday 4-8 pm.
Obituary
Mrs. Bentley died Tuesday morning at her home after a brief illness. She was born in Brockton, a daughter of the late William and Adeline (Connell) Gary. She attended school in West Bridgewater and resided in Bridgewater for the past two years. She previously lived ten years in the Halifax Mobile Park Home having come from Brockton where she had resided for many years. During WW II she was a riveter and welder at the shipyard. She had been a homemaker, who when her son was in college and Medical School worked in the housekeeping Dept. at the Goddard Hospital. She enjoyed camping with her husband.
She is survived by her children, Dr. Douglas G. Bentley and his fiancée Claire of Bridgewater, Barbara A. Jardin of New Bedford and Carol J. Reed of Bridgewater, her grandchildren, Ashley, Natalie, Catherine Keith, Mark, Sandrah and Wendy, seven great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
She was the wife for 55 years to the late Edwin F. Bentley and sister of the late William Gary, Jr., Holman “Junior” Gary, Wayne Gary, Malcolm Gary, Clara Hebshie, Priscilla Brichacek and Marcia Niles