Paul Robbins Bennett Jr.

His family loves him always for his quiet strength and generously giving heart. Paul grew up in Galveston and LaMarque, but traveled the world as far as Scotland and China in his 20-year career with the U.S. Air Force and as field operations engineer for Halliburton and his own business of Innovative Sensor Solutions in which he owned two patents. But he and his wife Mary Ellyne were most happy when they returned home, especially their Galveston Bay house in Bayou Vista.

He was preceded in death by his parents, the late Paul and Evelyn Bennett; and father-in-law, the late Ole Berntsen Sr. His survivors include his wife, Mary Ellyne; brother, Tom Bennett; daughter, Kimberly; son-in-law, Richard Myers; grandchildren, Clayton and Mykayla; friend, Harlan Jillson; and numerous family and friends.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o’clock in the afternoon until eight o’clock in the evening on Thursday, the 7th of October, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston. The recitation of the Holy Rosary will commence at seven o’clock, followed by the Vigil Service.

The Mass of Christian Burial is to be conducted at ten o’clock in the morning on Friday, the 8th of October, at St. Jerome Catholic Church, 8825 Kempwood Drive in Houston, where the Rev. Michael V. Cleve and Frank Berntsen are to officiate.

The graveside service is to follow at half-past one o’clock in the afternoon at Mount Olivet Cemetery, 7801 I 45 S Hughes Road in Dickinson, TX.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests that donations be made in Paul’s memory to Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, 383 Main Avenue, 5th Floor, Norwalk, CT, 06851.