For a complete obituary see the Dec. 31, New London, CT Day William Hewitt Bentley, 45, of Waterford, died December 30, 2005 at Lawrence & Memorial Hospital after a 14 month courageous fight with Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer. Bill was born July 13, 1960 in New London, the son of Lawrence Hewitt and Marcia B. Bentley of Groton. He was the beloved husband of Barbara Greenberg Bentley for 20 years and the father of three teenage sons, Jordan Hewitt Bentley, Spencer Charles Bentley, and Craig Avery Bentley. He is also survived by his brother David L. Bentley of New York City and his sister Donna E. Duso and her husband James Duso of Oakdale. Bill was a direct descendant of William Bentley of Ampthill, England who settled in Kings Towne, Colony of Rhode Island in 1671, in the area now known as Wickford. His son William, Jr. settled on land next to the Beaver River in Westerly, which became part of Charlestown and is now part of present day Richmond. Bill is also descended, through his great-grandmother Jenny Hewitt, from Capt. Thomas Hewitt who established a trading post at the head of the Mystic River about 1657 and who married Hannah, Walter Palmer's daughter in Stonington in 1659. Through Jenny Hewitt, Bill is also a descendant of the other original settlers of Stonington, namely Thomas Stanton, George Denison, William Chesebrough, Thomas Miner, and Robert Parke. In addition he is descended from several other early local area settlers including James Avery through the marriage of Stanton Hewitt, Jr. to Mary Avery. Bill's father grew up in the Avery house constructed in 1790 by William Avery, located in North Stonington, and inherited by Bill's grandfather.