Frederick A. Bentley Jr.

   Frederick A. Bentley Jr., 93, of Pennington died April 21 at the University Medical Center at Princeton.
   Born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England, his father Fred Bentley Sr. immigrated to America in 1920 to work in the Trenton Potteries. He sent for his wife Annie and his children in 1922 and they lived in Trenton for many years before moving to Lawrenceville in the 1930s.
   Mr. Bentley was educated in the Trenton schools and graduated from Trenton High School in 1929. He held several jobs before apprenticing as a butcher at Marty Carroll’s Butcher Shop in Lawrenceville and eventually opened his own business known as Bentley’s Market in 1943. Mr. Bentley and his late wife, Laura, owned and operated Bentley’s Market for over 40 years retiring in 1984.
   Mr. Bentley was a member of the New Jersey Orchid Society, a charter member of the Lawrence Township First Aid Squad, and a longtime member of the Lawrenceville Fire Company.
   Son of the late Fred Sr. and Annie Bentley, brother of the late Nellie Buxton, Grace Wauters, Frances McConnell, and Arthur Bentley, he is survived by four sons and daughters-in-law, Frederick and Robin Bentley of Lawrenceville, Arthur and Carol Bentley of Pennington, John T. Bentley of Lawrenceville, and Robert Wienmann of Ft. Lauderdale Fla.; six grandchildren, Kevin Bentley, Melissa Abrahams, Jennifer Bentley, Stacey Ellis, Bobby Wienmann, and Shirley Ann Lenard; two great-grandchildren, Brian Abrahams and Jenna Lenard; and several nieces and nephews.
   Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Wilson-Apple Funeral Home, Pennington Circle, with the Rev. Jeffrey Vamos, pastor, and Joan W. Semenuk, associate for pastoral ministry, officiating.
   Burial will be in the Lawrenceville Cemetery.
   Friends may call from 7-9 p.m. today (Tuesday) at the funeral home.
   Memorial contributions may be made to the Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church, 2688 Main St., Lawrenceville, 08648, or the Lawrenceville Fire Company, 64 Phillips Ave., Lawrenceville, 08648.
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