Ex-Assemblyman Bennett dies
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1998 | 10:48 a.m.
Former Assemblyman Max Jene Bennett, R-Las Vegas, died Saturday.
Private services will be conducted by Desert Memorial Cremation and Burial Society for the 46-year-old who represented District 14 during his one term in the state Legislature from 1995 to 1996.
A resident of Las Vegas for 10 years, Bennett was born in Oklahoma and earned degrees in mathematics and physics from East Central University in Ada, Okla.
The drilling engineer was a former member of the Clark County Republican Party Central Committee. In 1994 he received the GOP "Leadership Award."
Bennett is survived by his father, Jack Sr. of San Antonio, Texas; a son, Matthew, of Blanchard, Okla.; two daughters, Nicole, of Biloxi, Miss., and Jennifer, of Las Vegas; a brother, Jack Jr., of Countyline, Okla.; and grandmother, Viola Lawson, also of Countyline.
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