Harold Wayne Bennett (Floydada)

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Harold Wayne Bennett (Floydada)

Harold Wayne Bennett, age 92, of Floydada, passed away Saturday, August 6, 2022. A Funeral will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, August 12, 2022, at the First United Methodist Church of Floydada, with Gary Boles, Rance Young, and Bruce Cotton officiating. A visitation will be held from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., Thursday, August 11, 2022, at Moore-Rose Funeral Home in Floydada. Arrangements are under the personal care of Moore-Rose Funeral Home of Floydada.

Harold Wayne Bennett was born December 21, 1929, in Knox County to Clarence Wayne Bennett and Hettie Ethel Wiggins. He graduated high school from Floydada in 1947. He married the love of his life, Geneva Faye Richardson Bennett, on June 12, 1948. He lived in Lubbock, Texas, for a couple of years, working as a butcher in a grocery store.

By 1949 his father’s Concrete Business (Bennett Building Materials) that had been established in the late 1940s was doing well, and Harold went to work for his dad Wayne. In the 1950s, the business had purchased one of the largest 5-yard mixers in the area. This landed them the opportunity to pour concrete jobs for schools, hospitals, and subdivisions around the community. From 1952-1962 he worked part-time in the concrete business while transitioning to farming. By the mid-60s, he had returned to the concrete business. In 1978 Harold began working at the Floydada Post Office as a rural letter carrier and retired in 1995. During this time, he also worked nights at the “Piggy Back” unloading cars that would come in on the train until we lost the railroad coming through town. He wasn’t ready to completely retire, so he went back to what he had done before, concrete work. But this time, he was working side by side with his oldest son, Gary Bennett. They worked, discussed, and probably argued on every other job. In 2015 while on a job, Gary collapsed, and we lost him that day on the job. Harold was 86 at this time, and after the funeral, he and younger son Ricky Bennett and other family members went to finish a job that Gary had been working on.

In June 2016, Harold and Geneva celebrated a surprise 68th wedding anniversary in the hospital due to Geneva’s rapidly declining health, and she passed away three weeks later. Harold loves spending time with family and friends, telling them stories about the years of riding his horse to school, rodeos, pony express, riding club, parades, play days, stock shows, and all of the kids’ and grandkids’ sporting and school activities. In his later years, he went to casinos, played dominoes at the Beehive, and danced with his granddaughters.

Harold has been described as a kind-hearted, gentle soul always willing to help anyone, having an unmatched work ethic, a great true cowboy, living life to its fullest, one of a kind, loving, big, special, amazing honest man. A son, brother, husband, daddy, papa, great papa, and great-great papa.

He is preceded in death by his parents; Wayne and Hettie Bennett, Sister baby Francis Bennett, wife Geneva Faye Bennett, oldest son Gary Wayne Bennett, and great-great-granddaughter Haizlee Trevino.

His children survive Harold; Valdonna and husband Larry Barbee of Tyler, Texas; Pam Bennett, wife of the late Gary Bennett of Floydada, Texas; Ricky Bennett and wife Jill of Lake Allan Henry; and Rhonda and husband Larry Stovall of Floydada, Texas. He has left his legacy to 15 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren, and another great-great-grandson on the way in a few months, a sister, Rotha Moore, and husband Luis of Dumas, Texas, as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews, other relatives, and a host of friends of all ages.

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