Age 97, Ponca City - Services will be 1:30 PM Thursday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Tom Willoughby, Associate Pastor, First Baptist Church, officiating. Mrs. Bentley died Saturday in Ponca City. Burial will be in the Sunset Memorial Gardens. She was born December 3, 1911, in Pottawatomie County, near Tecumseh, Oklahoma to Frank and Sallie (Shinpoch) Allen. The family later moved to a farm near Elgin, Oklahoma. There she met her future husband, Sidney E. Bentley, and they made their home in Lawton. They were married December 24, 1932. On December 24, 1982, they celebrated 50 years of marriage. Susie was a member of Central Baptist Church, teaching Sunday school there for 27 years. She was active in PTA and was a Blue Bird leader. She also was an election worker from the 1940's to the 1990's. Susie was a devoted mother, wife and homemaker. She moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma in May, 2002, to be near her daughter and son-in-law. Susie is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Claudia and James Bellah; two grandsons and their wives, David and Jamie Bellah, Paul and Janelle Bellah; five great grandchildren, Rachel, Grant, Sydney, Madison and Mackenzie Bellah; two sisters-in-law in Lawton, Rosemary Bainbridge and Evelyn Allen; and a host of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Sidney E. Bentley, her parents, two brothers and two sisters. Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice of North Central Oklahoma, Inc., 1904 N. Union, Suite 103, Ponca City, Oklahoma 74601.