Lois Bentley of Brandon, whose lobbying efforts helped get a couple of Brandon Greys ballplayers inducted into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame, died Thursday, Feb. 18, after suffering a heart attack. She was 78.

Bentley was a fan of the Greys in her youth and was persistent in lobbying to have American Dirk “Bubble Gum” Gibbons and Cuban-American Armando Vasquez, both of whom starred for the professional Greys in the late 1940s, inducted into the Hall of Fame.

The two were featured in a documentary produced by Winnipeg filmmaker Bob Huculak, who brought the two former players to Brandon in 2005. They were reunited with Bentley and a couple of local players in a reunion on the Kinsmen Stadium diamond near the university.

The attention brought to Gibbons and Vasquez through Huculak's efforts also helped realize Bentley's dream – of the two being inducted into the Hall of Fame. That ceremony took place in June of 2006. Huculak called Bentley “a firecracker of a women who was the strength and passionate voice” in his documentary, The Boys Who Came to Play.

Bentley “never complained about herself,” he said. “I thought she'd live forever. But her voice and stories will.”