Deaths
BENTON — Harry C. Benton, Padonia, died Tuesday evening, July 24, 1979, at the VA Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., at the age of 70. He was born near Hamlin, Kans., August 6, 1908, the son of Virgil and Eva Fanning Benton and had lived in that area nearly all his life.
He had operated a portable feed mill for many years and had lived in Padonia from the 1940's until 1970.
He had been a resident of Merry Manor Nursing Home of Holton for four years before his recent hospitalization for a fractured hip.
He had attended the United Methodist Church of Reserve and was a member of the Homer White Post 66 American Legion of Hiawatha, having served in the Army during WW2.
He was married to Hattie Hanson in Troy January 29, 1949. She survives at the Maple Heights Nursing Home in Hiawatha.
He is also survived by three stepdaughters, Mrs. Charlene Fiedler of Holton, Kans., Mrs. Norma Jean Armstrong of Reserve, Kans., and Mrs. Thelma Reeves of Marena, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Avis Glettig of Denver, Colo., and Miss Golda Benton of Overland Park, Kans.; 11 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother Bert Benton and a sister, Geneva Benton.
Funeral services will be held from the Casselman Meek Mortuary Chapel at 2 p.m. Friday, July 27, with Rev. Harold Wolf officiating. Interment will be at the Cornelison Cemetery east of Reserve.
—The Hiawatha Daily World (Hiawatha, KS)
Wed. July 25, 1979, p.8.
BENTON — Harry C. Benton, Padonia, died Tuesday evening, July 24, 1979, at the VA Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., at the age of 70. He was born near Hamlin, Kans., August 6, 1908, the son of Virgil and Eva Fanning Benton and had lived in that area nearly all his life.
He had operated a portable feed mill for many years and had lived in Padonia from the 1940's until 1970.
He had been a resident of Merry Manor Nursing Home of Holton for four years before his recent hospitalization for a fractured hip.
He had attended the United Methodist Church of Reserve and was a member of the Homer White Post 66 American Legion of Hiawatha, having served in the Army during WW2.
He was married to Hattie Hanson in Troy January 29, 1949. She survives at the Maple Heights Nursing Home in Hiawatha.
He is also survived by three stepdaughters, Mrs. Charlene Fiedler of Holton, Kans., Mrs. Norma Jean Armstrong of Reserve, Kans., and Mrs. Thelma Reeves of Marena, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Avis Glettig of Denver, Colo., and Miss Golda Benton of Overland Park, Kans.; 11 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother Bert Benton and a sister, Geneva Benton.
Funeral services will be held from the Casselman Meek Mortuary Chapel at 2 p.m. Friday, July 27, with Rev. Harold Wolf officiating. Interment will be at the Cornelison Cemetery east of Reserve.
—The Hiawatha Daily World (Hiawatha, KS)
Wed. July 25, 1979, p.8.
Deaths
BENTON — Harry C. Benton, Padonia, died Tuesday evening, July 24, 1979, at the VA Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., at the age of 70. He was born near Hamlin, Kans., August 6, 1908, the son of Virgil and Eva Fanning Benton and had lived in that area nearly all his life.
He had operated a portable feed mill for many years and had lived in Padonia from the 1940's until 1970.
He had been a resident of Merry Manor Nursing Home of Holton for four years before his recent hospitalization for a fractured hip.
He had attended the United Methodist Church of Reserve and was a member of the Homer White Post 66 American Legion of Hiawatha, having served in the Army during WW2.
He was married to Hattie Hanson in Troy January 29, 1949. She survives at the Maple Heights Nursing Home in Hiawatha.
He is also survived by three stepdaughters, Mrs. Charlene Fiedler of Holton, Kans., Mrs. Norma Jean Armstrong of Reserve, Kans., and Mrs. Thelma Reeves of Marena, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Avis Glettig of Denver, Colo., and Miss Golda Benton of Overland Park, Kans.; 11 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother Bert Benton and a sister, Geneva Benton.
Funeral services will be held from the Casselman Meek Mortuary Chapel at 2 p.m. Friday, July 27, with Rev. Harold Wolf officiating. Interment will be at the Cornelison Cemetery east of Reserve.
—The Hiawatha Daily World (Hiawatha, KS)
Wed. July 25, 1979, p.8.
BENTON — Harry C. Benton, Padonia, died Tuesday evening, July 24, 1979, at the VA Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., at the age of 70. He was born near Hamlin, Kans., August 6, 1908, the son of Virgil and Eva Fanning Benton and had lived in that area nearly all his life.
He had operated a portable feed mill for many years and had lived in Padonia from the 1940's until 1970.
He had been a resident of Merry Manor Nursing Home of Holton for four years before his recent hospitalization for a fractured hip.
He had attended the United Methodist Church of Reserve and was a member of the Homer White Post 66 American Legion of Hiawatha, having served in the Army during WW2.
He was married to Hattie Hanson in Troy January 29, 1949. She survives at the Maple Heights Nursing Home in Hiawatha.
He is also survived by three stepdaughters, Mrs. Charlene Fiedler of Holton, Kans., Mrs. Norma Jean Armstrong of Reserve, Kans., and Mrs. Thelma Reeves of Marena, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Avis Glettig of Denver, Colo., and Miss Golda Benton of Overland Park, Kans.; 11 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother Bert Benton and a sister, Geneva Benton.
Funeral services will be held from the Casselman Meek Mortuary Chapel at 2 p.m. Friday, July 27, with Rev. Harold Wolf officiating. Interment will be at the Cornelison Cemetery east of Reserve.
—The Hiawatha Daily World (Hiawatha, KS)
Wed. July 25, 1979, p.8.
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