"Badly Burned Woman Dies.
    Mrs. Maria S. Bentley, 63, of 602 Highland Rd. died at Tompkins County Hospital Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1964 from complications (a coronary) following an accident in her home Saturday when she was critically scalded. She was the widow of Prof. John J. Bentley Jr. Born in New York City, daughter of the late Isidore and Christina Seguin, she was graduated in 1923 from Cornell University."

Ithaca Journal, Dec. 30. 1964, 3.