Asa Monroe Bennett

Graveside services for Asa Monroe Bennett, 93, of Washington, were held Monday, October 9, 2006, at Resthaven Cemetery, Washington. He died Friday, October 6, at his home.

Mr. Bennett was a native of Wilkes County and was the son of the late Nathan Robert and Mattie (Woodruff) Bennett. His wife, the late Annie Leila Wells Bennett, died in 1999. As a youth in Wilkes County, Mr. Bennett attended Big Cedar School and graduated from Washington High School. He received a bachelor's degree in agriculture from the University of Georgia in 1935, having earned his tuition and board in the Depression years by creating a laundry pick-up and delivery service for college students living in dormitories.

After a brief period of working as an agricultural agent for the Atlantic

Coast Railroad, Mr. Bennett returned to Wilkes County to buy land and work as a farmer, raising Hereford cattle and planting extensive acreage in trees for lumber. He also owned the Bennett Manufacturing Co., which manufactured Go-Karts from 1963 to 1977. He was a longtime member of the First United Methodist Church in Washington.

Survivors include a son, Asa William (Bill) Bennett of Washington; two daughters, Mary Ann Hawkins of Morrow, and Joyce B. Crouch of Amherst, MA; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Memorial gifts may be made to the First United Methodist Church of Washington or to the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church of Washington.

Hopkins Funeral Home of Washington was in charge of arrangements.

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