Nicholas Jefferson Bennett

Nicholas Bennett of San Antonio, TX was swooped up from this world at the premature age of 64 on the 9th day of May in 2022 after a cascading whirlwind of medical mishaps starting in the summer of 2016.

Nicholas Jefferson Bennett was born on the 29th day of September 1957 in Escondido California to Patricia Bertha Bozeman-Bennett and Clifford Wayne Bennett. In 1976, he went into the Air Force as a Crew Chief and served twenty loyal years to his country. He spent another twenty years as a civil servant for the Air Force working on the same model T-38’s and T-1A airplanes at the same base he retired from previously, Randolph Air Force Base. His immense love for aviation was revealed in the plethora of photographs he took of the jets in action landing that he and his fellow Chargin Cheetahs in the 560th Flying Training Squadron maintained.

He had the same love for music and his family, documenting many memories throughout his lifetime. Nick met his beloved Wife Susie at a club just outside RAFB on Pat Booker road, The Crystal Palace. His proposal to her at The Magic Time Machine was so well masked in the boisterous crowd, that when she said “What? It’s loud in here!” he said, “Are you going to answer the question?” Where in turn her response was, “Yes!”, and they would laugh with their children over the years that she said yes to answering the question, not the proposal.

Nick is survived by his Wife Susan Bennett (65), his two sons; Stephen Wayne Bennett (43) and Christopher Williams Bennett (41), and his daughter Candice Nicole Bennett (37). He is also survived by a number of grandchildren: Christopher Wayne Bennett, Eric Lawrence Bennett, Stephen Wayne Bennett, Destanie Bennett, Noah Bennett, Avellanna Reign Ramirez, and Joel Brandon Salinas, as well as his great granddaughter Layla Alexa Valenzan Bennett. His four sisters, Thalia (Teri) Helena Sears, Tami Marie Brown, Cheryl Rae Bennett, and Jamie Lynn Bennett made him Uncle Nick, giving him several nieces and nephews.

He joins his daughter Kristina Bennett in the after-life who was also taken from this world prematurely at birth, as well as his parents, Cliff and Pat, his in-laws Susan and Joe, and his two older sisters Teri and Tami.

His family and friends will be commemorating his life at Fort Sam National Cemetery on what would have been his and Susan’s 45th Wedding Anniversary, the 15th day of June at 10:15am at pavilion #2. If any one wishes to attend, his daughter asks that you bring or donate a potted plant or flower with a personalized painted rock rather than a wreath because Nicholas loved to cook from his garden and paint with his grandchildren. With these donations she is going to transform his garden into a tranquil space for her mom to meditate in his spirit.