Retired Colonel Robert Wayne Bennett

Retired Colonel Robert Wayne Bennett, 79, St. Joseph, Missouri died Oct. 24, 2012 at Heartland Regional Medical Center. He was born in Garnett, Kan., the son of Thomas and Lorene Tucker Bennett.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m., Monday, Meierhoffer Funeral Home and Crematory. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends 6 to 8 p.m., Sunday, at the Meierhoffer Funeral Home and Crematory, where friends may call after 5 p.m., Sunday. The family suggests memorial gifts to American Cancer Society Hope Lodge.

Online guest book and obituary at www.meierhoffer.com.