Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
4:38 pm Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Eathel Lee Bentley

Eathel Lee Bentley

February 22, 2013

Eathel Lee Bentley, 88, Russellville, passed away Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at Russellville Hospital.

She lived her entire life in Franklin County and was a member of Southside Baptist Church.

Funeral services were Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, at Pinkard Funeral Home, Russellville, with Rev. George McGuire officiating. Burial was in Franklin Memory Gardens.

Survivors include her children, Charles Bentley and wife, Gloria, Russellville; Malinda Rayburn and husband, Charles, Muscle Shoals; stepdaughter, Reba Glasgow and husband, Bob, Muscle Shoals; sisters, Judy Love, Killen, Helen Kimbrough, Phil Campbell; brother, Earl Beasley, South Carolina; grandchildren, Chuck Rayburn and wife, Lane, Josh Rayburn, Brad Bentley and wife, Carissa, Megan Bentley Smith and husband, Eric; great-grandchildren, Will Rayburn, Natalie Rayburn, Meredith Rayburn, Bentley Smith and Madison Kimbrough.

Pallbearers were Chuck Rayburn, Josh Rayburn, Will Rayburn, Brad Bentley, Eric Smith,

Loyd Love, Jr., David Kimbrough and Mike Kimbrough.

She was preceded in death by her husband, R. S. Bentley; parents, W. A. and Rosie B. Beasley; brothers, Harold Beasley and Oather Beasley; sister Myrtle Raburn.

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