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From the Bennington Banner March 9, 1962
MRS. CLARA B. STAFFORD
MANCHESTER - Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Bennett Stafford, one of the town's oldest residents who died Sunday at the age of 94, were held from Zion Episcopal Church on Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Robert L. Clayton, rector, officiated.
Burial will be in Dellwood Cemetery in the spring.
The pallbearers were; Roger B. and R. Gordon Hurley, William C. Hawrath and Paul Todischinder.
Mrs. Stafford had lived at the Equinox View Nursing Home for 11 years. She was the daughter of George W. and Julia Ronalds Bennett, born in Manchester June 30, 1868 in the house now owned by the A.E. Luders family of Stamford, Conn.
She attended Burr and Burton Seminary and was the oldest living graduate of that school. She was a graduate of Columbia University Teachers College.
After her graduation, she was employed at director of the occupational therapy department of Adams Nervine Hospital at Jamaica Plain, Mass. She remained at this post for 3 years until her retirement at the age of 70 when she returned to Manchester.
She was married in 1892 to Fay B. Stafford of Wallingford and she lived in that town for several years and served as town clerk for a period.
Mrs. Stafford was the sister of Otis R. Bennett, who for many years was publisher of the Manchester Journal, and the late Willard K. Bennett, also of Manchester.
Survivors include four nephews and nieces, G. Stewart Bennett of Manchester; Mrs. J.C. Kneeshaw of Del Mar, Calif.; Mrs. Alfred T. Veit of St. Petersburg, Fla. and Harold P. Bennett of White Plains, N.Y.; also her sister-in-law, Mrs. Otto R. Bennett; also a niece by marriage, Mrs. G. Stewart Bennett.
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1868 - 1962 (93 years)
