William Bennett Chasten was born on December 16, 1951 in Rose Hill, Duplin County, North Carolina. He grew up in the small rural farming community (then) known as Little Creek and now known as Greenevers, North Carolina. He received his early childhood education in the Duplin County Public School system and later high school education in the Washington D.C. Public School System.
Although he moved with his family to Washington D.C. when he was a teenager in high school and lived most of his adult life in suburban Washington D.C., he remained a true son of Rose Hill, North Carolina. The many lessons he learned and life experiences that had while growing up in this small knit community shaped his life and made him the man that he would become in adulthood.
The close bonds that he formed with his grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and childhood friends made him appreciate the richness of life growing up in a small farming community like that of (then) Rose Hill aka Little Creek, North Carolina.
He was the oldest and first-born son of the late Harry Windell Chasten and Virginia Rae Chasten. Shortly after leaving high school, he and his family moved to Prince George’s County, Maryland a suburb of Washington D.C.
He held various jobs during his adult life, employed as a professional short haul truck driver for a local moving company and a soft drink bottling company. He also worked with a manufacturing company that produced window blinds and shades.
He was personable, generous to those whom he considered a friend, and a lover of sporty and classic cars. Throughout his life, he had a fondness for sharp clothes, good looking women, and living life to the fullest. He was briefly married and later divorced. Although he never had any children, he was a caring and loving uncle to his nieces and nephews.
He later became disabled due to complication from a massive stroke, requiring placement in a nursing and rehabilitation facility. He was a resident up until the time of his passing at the Crescent Cities Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, located in Riverdale, Maryland. Before his death declined, he always helped his mother prepare, plant and maintain her vegetable garden, as well as keeping her lawns looking great.
Throughout his life, he retained his love of home cooked foods and baked goods. He was especially fond of “pork cracklings,” only the kind that you can get in eastern North Carolina.
He is survived by his three siblings, sister Tonga R. Williams, brothers, Castor D Chasten and Rickie J. Chasten, Sr.; God Sister, Tracey Barbee-Williams; sisters-in-law, Kim Williams-Chasten and Angie Coleman-Chasten; and a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins. He is also survived by his paternal aunts, Alice Chaste and Dorothy Chasten; and uncles Herbert Chasten and Kenneth Russell Chasten, Sr.
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