Funeral services will be held at 1 pm Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at Perry Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Chad Brown officiating. Burial will follow in Unity Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 11 until 1 pm Wednesday. Perry Funeral Home directing. www.perryfuneral.net.
Survivors include sons, Greg (Staci) Mackey of Cedar Bluff, Randy Mackey, Cedar Bluff; daughters, Martha Jean (Orban) Elders, Cedar Bluff, Donna Faye (Alton) Woodall, Cedar Bluff, Shirley (Kenneth) Woodall, Gaylesville, Sheila (Harlan) Starr, Cedar Bluff; brother-in-law, Jody Cook, Lyerly, Georgia; eight grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; one great great grandson and several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Bentley was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph Mackey; brothers, B.L. Bankson, Billy Bankson, Jack Bankson, Ted Bankson; sisters, Jean Rowe, Betty Cook and Dixie Mackey Peckham.
Mrs. Bentley was the daughter of the late Samuel Sheldon and Lena Mae Morrison Bankson.