Glenn D. Benson, 87, passed away at 7:35 p.m. Friday, October 17, 2008, at the Tuscola Health Care Center Tuscola, Douglas Co., Illinois. He was born in Decatur, Macon Co., Illinois to Grover and Myrtle Hanna Benson. He married Violet M. Henderson on July 27, 1957, in Tuscola, Illinois.
He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Dawn (John) Stokes, a stepson, Boyd (Virginia) Henderson, his sisters, Beatrice Godsey and Betty Funkhouser, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Glenn was a World War II U.S. Army veteran and a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church. He retired from the U.S. Post Office, where he worked as a letter carrier, mail sorter and postal clerk. After retirement, he worked at the Tuscola IGA and at Tuscola Recycling.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and one sister.
News-Gazette, The (Champaign-Urbana, IL) - Sunday, October 19, 2008
He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Dawn (John) Stokes, a stepson, Boyd (Virginia) Henderson, his sisters, Beatrice Godsey and Betty Funkhouser, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Glenn was a World War II U.S. Army veteran and a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church. He retired from the U.S. Post Office, where he worked as a letter carrier, mail sorter and postal clerk. After retirement, he worked at the Tuscola IGA and at Tuscola Recycling.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and one sister.
News-Gazette, The (Champaign-Urbana, IL) - Sunday, October 19, 2008
Glenn D. Benson, 87, passed away at 7:35 p.m. Friday, October 17, 2008, at the Tuscola Health Care Center Tuscola, Douglas Co., Illinois. He was born in Decatur, Macon Co., Illinois to Grover and Myrtle Hanna Benson. He married Violet M. Henderson on July 27, 1957, in Tuscola, Illinois.
He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Dawn (John) Stokes, a stepson, Boyd (Virginia) Henderson, his sisters, Beatrice Godsey and Betty Funkhouser, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Glenn was a World War II U.S. Army veteran and a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church. He retired from the U.S. Post Office, where he worked as a letter carrier, mail sorter and postal clerk. After retirement, he worked at the Tuscola IGA and at Tuscola Recycling.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and one sister.
News-Gazette, The (Champaign-Urbana, IL) - Sunday, October 19, 2008
He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Dawn (John) Stokes, a stepson, Boyd (Virginia) Henderson, his sisters, Beatrice Godsey and Betty Funkhouser, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Glenn was a World War II U.S. Army veteran and a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church. He retired from the U.S. Post Office, where he worked as a letter carrier, mail sorter and postal clerk. After retirement, he worked at the Tuscola IGA and at Tuscola Recycling.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and one sister.
News-Gazette, The (Champaign-Urbana, IL) - Sunday, October 19, 2008
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