BENNETT, Lorenzo Dow (Lon)

Newspaper Unknown Monday, June 8, 1931 Funeral services for Lon Bennett will be held at Ruffner's Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Friends and acquaintances invited. Interment at Mountain View. ----------------------- Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Tuesday, June 9, 1931, page 1, column 7 Lon Bennett Is Taken By Death Funeral for Local Man, Who Died of Heart Attack in Car, Will Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon Heart disease, striking suddenly, cause the unexpected death Sunday of Lon Bennett, member of one of Prescott's pioneer families, while he was in route to Wickenburg from Glendale with a group of friends in an automobile. He had been riding in the rear seat, talking with his friends who were in front. One of them turned around to say something and he was sitting there dead. His body was brought to Prescott Sunday night and will be buried in Mountain View cemetery tomorrow afternoon following services in the Lester Ruffner chapel at 4:30 o'clock. Mrs. Alvina Clyburn, 218 East Carlton street, a sister, said today so far as she knew he had been in good health and had had not pervious heart attacks. He was born in Half Moon Bay, Calif., near San Francisco, on Jan. 1, 1874, and therefore was 57 years old. When he was 3 years old he came to Prescott with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bennett. Practically all his life Lon Bennett was engaged either in the freighting, mining, or trucking business. In his latter years he spent most of his time on his Thompson Valley ranch, near Kirkland, where he was engaged in cattle raising. Besides the widow, Mrs. Celia Bennett, who resides here, he is survived by three sons, Henry, living in Kirkland; Ray L., 904 Copper Basin road; and Preston, 530 South Cortez street. There are also four sisters, Mrs. Minnie Whiteside, Hollywood; Mrs. Clyburn, Prescott; Mrs. Birdie Maxwell, Clarkdale; and Mrs. Allie Johnson, Miller Valley. Grant Bennett, mining man of the Groom creek district is a brother.