Eleanor Rose Bennet
March 30, 1942 — November 10, 2023
Her Story
Eleanor Rose Bennett was born on a quiet spring morning in Savannah, Georgia, the second of four children to Robert and Mae Collins. From her earliest years, Eleanor had a gift that couldn't be taught — she made everyone around her feel like the most important person in the room.
She studied education at the University of Georgia, where she met a young architecture student named Harold Bennett at a campus dance in 1963. They married the following summer in a small ceremony by the Savannah River, surrounded by family and the smell of magnolias. It was, by all accounts, the happiest day either…
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She never let me spiral alone. 3am texts, ugly crying on her couch, the worst versions of me — she showed up for all of it. I don't know who I am without her.
Eleanor was my son's third grade teacher. Twenty years later, he still talks about her — how she believed in him when no one else did. She didn't just teach children to read, she taught them they mattered.
I had the privilege of living next door to Eleanor for 15 years. She brought cookies every Christmas and remembered every single family member's name. We will miss her dearly.
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