The Kile/Kyle Families
Bennie Houston Kile


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     Bennie Houston Kile was born 6 January 1920 in Liberty, Coleman County, Texas and died 8 July 1998 in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas.  He was the son of Luther Austin Kile and Ulala Mahala McQueen.  He married Lois Evelyn Halpain* on 6 January 1945 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas.  She is the daughter of Cleveland William Halpain and Bessie May Hall, of McLennan County, Texas.  She was first married to Curtis Beasley.
     He was named for his maternal grandmother Bennie Lou Crenshaw McQueen.  As a young man, he worked for the WPA and helped to build a stone wall still standing in Coleman, Texas. He was a family man and worked in the oil fields in New Mexico, also served in the Army/Air Corp during World War II in the Military Police. He had worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Gandy's Creamery, and then finally retired from Ben E. Keith Co. He is buried at Brown Ranch Cemetery near Coleman, Texas.

Bennie Houston Kile and Lois Evelyn Halpain Beasley had the following children:
Donna Cheryl Kile,
b. 25 July 1949, McLennan County, Texas.
Collin Keith Kile,
b. 12 August 1955, Santa Anna, Coleman County, Texas.
 Lois Evelyn Halpain* first married Curtis Beasley had the following children:
James Curtis Beasley,
b. 4 January 1942, Waco, McLennan County, Texas.
Evalyn Kay Beasley,
b. 8 May 1944, Waco, McLennan County, Texas.
More on:
Bennie Houston Kile
Birth Certificate:
Delayed, 4 September 1941.
Census:
Death Certificate:
42569, 15 July 1998.
Military Police, Sergeant, American Theatre Services, 5 September 1941-25 October 1945.
Lois Evelyn Halpain