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Edson Nathan Bennett

Edson Nathan Bennett

Male 1919 - 1994  (74 years)


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  • Name Edson Nathan Bennett  [1] 
    Birth 14 Sep 1919  Pulaski, Richalnd Twp., Oswego County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 26 Jul 1994 
    Person ID I56967  Stewartsny
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

    Father Norman Simeon Bennett,   b. Abt 1886, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1959, New York ? Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Blanche Olive Driggs,   b. Abt 1892, Forest City, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1976, Bainbridge, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F11473  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ruth Inez Burdick,   b. 10 Jun 1917, Richland Twp., Oswego County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 May 2003 (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage 22 Sep 1940  Pulaski, Oswego, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Richard Edson Bennett,   b. 15 Jun 1945, Pulaski, Oswego, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jan 2025 (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F18819  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Class of 1937 PACS

      Edson N. Bennett -September 14, 1919 - July 26, 1994. Son of Norman and Blanche Driggs Bennett. Husband of Ruth I. Burdick Bennett.

      Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, July 28, 1994 Watertown Daily Times - Watertown, New York - Edson Bennett, Ex-Conrail Foreman Dies - Edson N. Bennett, 74, of 7608 Richland Road, died Tuesday in the State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Foster-Hax Funeral Home with the Rev. Elizabeth Mowry officiating. Burial will be in South Richland Cemetery. Calling hours are 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Donations may be made to Northern Oswego County Ambulance, Delano Street, Pulaski, or Oswego County Hospice, in care of H. Douglas Barclay Courthouse, Pulaski, New York 13142. Surviving are his wife, Ruth; a son, Richard "Rick," Pulaski; two brothers, Norman, Sydney, and Aaden, Amarillo, Texas; four sisters, Norma Jackson, Sydney, Beatrice Gibbs, Richland, Leatrice Saunders, Unadilla, and Lona Kitchen, Bainbridge, and several nieces and nephews. Born on September 14, 1919, in Pulaski, a son of Norman and Blanche Driggs Bennett, he graduated from Pulaski High School in 1937 and was a life resident of Pulaski. Mr. Bennett served in the Army from 1941 to 1945, and married Ruth I. Burdick on September 22, 1940. He was employed for 38 years by Conrail in Watertown, retiring as foreman in 1981. He was a member of Robert Edwards Post 358, American Legion, and Pulaski Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7289.

  • Sources 
    1. [S150] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Pulaski, Oswego, New York; Roll: T627_2715; Page: 22A; Enumeration District: 38-68.