View source for Benintendi, William - July 11, 1923 to August 9, 1996

Very active, civic-minded man who chaired many benefits and reunions. Member of the Bethpage Fire Department. He compiled a history of Bethpage, the school district and St. Martin of Tours which is on file at The Bethpage Library. (Bethpage History by Rosalie Walsh Niemczyk)

William wrote "A Passage of Time" in the twenty-first Anniversary of Bethpage book.  As he tells the story of Bethpage becoming of age from the Thomas Powell purchase to the many changes that took place over the years up to 1957.