BENNETT, TODD GARFIELD (1898-1945)

BENNETT, TODD GARFIELD, Anglican curate and rector, Ludlow and Blissfield, 1926-29; b. Cross Creek, York Co., N.B., 1 Nov 1898, s/o John B. Bennett and Hester A. McLean; m. 1927, Mary Beulah Dykeman ; d. St Stephen, N.B., 13 Dec 1945.

Todd G. Bennett served overseas with the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a gunner in World War I. Following his return in 1919 he entered King's College, Windsor. Due to an illness which was attributed to his military service he withdrew from King's in the fall of 1921 without taking a degree, but five years later he had satisfied the requirements for admission to the Anglican ministry.

In June 1926 Bennett was made a deacon by the Bishop of Fredericton and assigned to Doaktown as curate of Ludlow and Blissfield. He was ordained a priest in 1927 and continued in the parish as rector until 1929. He was subsequently rector at McAdam for five years and at Renforth in 1934-35, at which time his ministry was terminated by illness. He lived in St Stephen for about five years prior to his death in 1945, at age forty-seven. His only named survivor was his wife.