Funeral services for Albert Tyler Bennett, 90, were held at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning at 2 p.m. Tuesday September 30, 1947. Mr. Bennett died at Dedham, September 27. He was the youngest son of Russell and Roba M. Bennett and was born October 8, 1856, near Milford, Massachusetts.

In the year 1869, together with a widowed mother, two brothers, two nephews, and a niece, he commenced a life of pioneering on the raw prairie in Section 16, Eden Township, Carroll County, where he resided a number of years. In 1869 there were only four other homes in Eden Township and none in the township adjoining on the west.

Entering the law office of the late Orlando H. Manning, for whom Manning was named, at Carroll, he studied law and was admitted to the bar. After a branch line railroad was built from Carroll to Audubon and the town of Manning began to develop, he located here for the practice of law. Later, he owned and operated the Bennett Bank in Manning, which became the German Savings Bank, of which he was an officer, and is now the Manning Trust and Savings Bank. He was also connected with the Bank of Manning.

Active in politics, he was Republican County Chairman. He was elected a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in 1899.

On December 23, 1883, he was married to Clara J. Ayrhart at the Ayrhart farm home southwest of Dedham. They were the parents of two sons, Harold, who died in infancy and Ralph, who passed away in Sioux City in 1938. His brother, Herbert A. Bennett, a Civil War Veteran, died in Vermont, and his brother, George R. Bennett, who in an early day was elected county surveyor of Carroll County, died in Sioux City in 1919.

In 1902, Mr. Bennett, moved from Manning to Sioux City, where for many years he was engaged in the banking business, he erected several business buildings, and was active in various public projects including the Tri-State Fair, Commercial College, and Commercial Club at Sioux City.

In the year 1944, because of failing health, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett came to the home of Mrs. Ella A. Levi, a sister of Mrs. Bennett, at Dedham. Mrs. Bennett died in November 1945.

Surviving relatives consist principally of nephews and nieces.

Burial was in the Manning Cemetery. Pallbearers were P.H. Jones, Julius Wehrmann, Henry Brandhorst, William Nulle, Albert David, and Ralph Gordon Sutherland.