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Oren Elizabeth <I>Willis</I> Benson

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Oren Elizabeth Willis Benson

Birth
Tennessee, USA
Death
19 Jan 1998 (aged 90)
Parsons, Decatur County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Sardis, Henderson County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, Wednesday, January 21, 1998

Oren Willis Benson, 90, retired Henderson County teacher after 30 years, died Monday of complications from heart failure and pneumonia at the Decatur County General Hospital in Parson, Tennessee.

Services will be at 1 p.m. today at the Sardis United Methodist Church, where she was a member, with burial in Sardis Cemetery. Shackelford Funeral Home of Savannah has charge.

She was a member of the State and National Retired Teachers Associations.

Mrs. Benson, the widow of Buford John Benson, leaves a son, Jack Ray Benson of Sardis; two brothers, Paul Willis of Milledgeville and Richie Willis of Memphis; three grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Married January 7, 1931, Henderson Co, TN
Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, Wednesday, January 21, 1998

Oren Willis Benson, 90, retired Henderson County teacher after 30 years, died Monday of complications from heart failure and pneumonia at the Decatur County General Hospital in Parson, Tennessee.

Services will be at 1 p.m. today at the Sardis United Methodist Church, where she was a member, with burial in Sardis Cemetery. Shackelford Funeral Home of Savannah has charge.

She was a member of the State and National Retired Teachers Associations.

Mrs. Benson, the widow of Buford John Benson, leaves a son, Jack Ray Benson of Sardis; two brothers, Paul Willis of Milledgeville and Richie Willis of Memphis; three grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Married January 7, 1931, Henderson Co, TN


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