Typed as spelled and written - Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
(Year missing) - Number 103
Marlin, Texas, Friday Morning, March 18, 1955

DR. BENNETT'S FATHER
FATALLY STRICKEN
WITH HEART ATTACK

       Alfred Charles Bennett, Sr., age 83, died in Arlington about 8 p.m.
Wednesday, March 16, 1955.  He was the father of Dr. A. C. Bennett of Marlin.
       Dr. Bennett and Dr. Frank McKinley went to Arlington on Wednesday to visit the sick man who had been stricken at his with a heart attack on Tuesday.  After a diagnosis of the patient it was decided to move him to Marlin for hospitalization.  An Adams Ambulance was called to Arlington to return Mr. Bennett to Marlin.  His condition appeared worse after the ambulance arrived there and death followed shortly afterwards at his home.
       Mr. Bennett was born in Owensburg, Kentucky, on November 26, 1871.  He resided at Fort Worth and Wichita Falls and during his liftetime he was engaged as a railroad engineer for the Burlington line.  He retired from these duties about 13 years ago and moved to Arlington about five years ago.  He operated the first diesel railroad engine to run in Texas on the Fort Worth and Wichita Falls operation.
       Funeral services will probably be held Friday afternoon at Arlington and burial will be at Fort Worth.
       He is survived by his widow at Arlington.  One son and one daughter, Dr. A. C. Bennett, (Marlin) and Mrs. W. D. Hord, Lubbock.  Also four grandchildren.

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