A funeral will be held Saturday for Joseph Taylor Bentley, 87, educator and church leader, who died June 15, 1993, in a Provo extended-care facility.
The services for Mr. Bentley, who was a Brigham Young University faculty member and who had been general superintendent of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association and a mission and stake president, will be held at 11 a.m. in the Oak Hills 6th Ward, 1900 N. 1500 East, Provo.Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Berg Mortuary, 185 E. Center St., and one hour before services Saturday at the chapel. Burial will be in the Provo City Cemetery.
Mr. Bentley attended Juarez State Academy and graduated in 1928 from Brigham Young University, where he received a master's degree in 1955 and was named chairman of the accounting department. In 1955 he became assistant to BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson and later was appointed administrator of church schools.
He was general manager of the Improvement Era, president of the BYU 1st Stake, a counselor in the Mexican Mission and president of the North Mexican and the Rosario, Argentina Missions. He and his wife, Kathleen, were the first international missionaries to Budapest, Hungary, and he was a counselor in the Provo Temple presidency.
Mr. Bently had heart problems and was a patient for about three weeks at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center before being taken to Country View Manor the day he died, a son said.