During viewings and services, Mr. Benta and his staff wore elegant suits, with pinstripes, long coats and gray gloves as they went about memorializing the dead and consoling families.
Mr. Benta, who died on Jan. 3 at the age of 91, was a stickler when it came to conduct, his family said. Something he would always say was printed on the back of his funeral program: "God gave us two ends: one to sit on; one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Heads you win, tails you lose."
If someone left the light on he would let the staff know: "My name is George Benta, not Thomas Edison." If he spotted a paper clip on the floor, he would wonder how it was that he was the first to see it and pick it up.
His other philosophy: Cater to the deceased, but do not forget the living.
- Kia Gregory
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Man, you read this warm story, and you just doff your heart for beautiful writing and meticulous research. You have to give it to the Western press, they can write obituaries. I am ashamed to admit that whenever an African of stature dies, I simply read the Western press for substantive history. You don't believe me? Compare the obituaries in the West on Dim Ojukwu with the ogiri pap in the Nigerian newspapers. SMH. What is our problem?
- Ikhide
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