The family visitation for Mrs. Venita Bentley, 96, of Enid formerly of Lawton will be held on Friday in Brown- Cummings Funeral Home from 5:00 P.M. until 7:00P.M. Graveside services will be held on Saturday at 1:30P.M. in the Chattanooga Cemetery, Chattanooga Oklahoma with Pastor Wade Burleson of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Enid officiating. Service is under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
Venita was born in Frederick, Oklahoma on October 7,1919 to Lola Maria Cornelius Peters and
Wallace Jay Peters and passed from this life February 22, 2016 in Enid. She graduated from Frederick High School and Lawton Business College. She married Ray Bentley in Chickasha in 1940. She and Ray lived in Lawton most of their married life and moved to Enid in 1995. Ray died in 2003.
Venita was a professional business person all her life in Lawton, Oklahoma. She worked at Nash Finch,
A.B. Goslin accounting firm and Thompson Heating and Air Conditioning Co. She opened the new
Dillard's accounting department both in Lawton and Wichita Falls, Texas. Her last job was with the
Waurika Master Conservancy District. She was also President of the Women's Business club in Lawton.
After retirement, Venita and her husband, Ray loved traveling and watching their grandchildren play in high school and college tennis matches including state and college national championship tournaments. She was known as Mimi to her family and the tennis teams.
She and her husband, Ray were members of Central Baptist Church and First Baptist Church in Lawton
and then Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, Oklahoma.
She is survived by one daughter Nikki Bentley Baker and her husband Paul Baker of Enid plus two
grandchildren, Stacy Rae Baker Cumpton and her husband, Jason, of Edmond and Jeffrey Paul Baker and
his wife, Katy, of Kremlin and six great grandchildren: Jacob and Caleb Cumpton and Logan, Bentley,
McQuinn and Lofton Baker.
She was preceded in death by husband Ray Bentley and two sisters, Juanita Lavin and Jackie Hyder and
one brother, Jay Wallace Peters.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made in her name to the Enid Public School Foundation or the Chattanooga Cemetery Association with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodians of the funds.
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