Currie, Bessie Bernice Bennison

CURRIE, BENNISON

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 12/1/2011 at 19:07:24

Currie, Bessie Bernice Bennison –
The community at large was greatly grieved to receive word that Bessie Bennison Currie, wife of Prof. Ralph Currie of Corning, had died at her home Tuesday afternoon.

Mrs. Currie, who was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Bennison, was born and raised in this community. She was one of Lenox’s best girls and her death brings sorrow to many.

She was taken sick last Friday with the flu, and Monday seemed much better, but Monday night pneumonia had developed and she was not so well, and she passed away Tuesday afternoon.

She leaves her husband, Ralph Currie, who is principal of the Corning high school and two little daughters, aged four and two, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W Bennison and a brother, William and sister Miss Berta.

An obituary will appear next week. Funeral services will be held in the Federated church at Corning at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Burial will be made in Corning.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday October 31, 1929

Currie, Bessie Bernice Bennison –
Bessie Bernice Bennison, daughter of Mr and Mrs. F. W. Bennison of Lenox was born April 3,1883 on a farm near Lenox, Iowa, and died at her home at 1200 Nodaway street, Corning, Iowa, October 29, 1929. She made her home on the farm until her marriage to R. W. Currie of Tarkio, Mo., June 30, 1991
Both she and her. husband were students in Tarkio college. In her early girlhood she united with the United Presbyterian church at Lenox, Iowa, and at the time of her death was a member of the Federated church of Corning.

Following their marriage she and her husband made their home in Colorado for five years, residing in Keats and Hudson. For the last three years they have made their home in Corning.

Mrs. Currie is survived by her husband, her two little girls aged 4 and 2, of Corning; her father and mother, a sister, Berta, and one brother, William Bennison, all of Lenox.

During the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Currle in Corning they have made a wide circle of friends and were held in the highest esteem in school, in church and in the entire community. While Mrs. Currie's interests were largely in the home she was an ideal wife, and mother, yet she found time to meet efficiently other demands made upon her. She was a member of the Woman's club and of the World's Friendship Circle and in both organizations did fine work and was
greatly loved by those with whom she was associated.

Funeral services were conducted at two o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Federated church in Corning with Rev. N. E. Lambly having charge. Interment was made in the Walnut Grove cemetery.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday November 6, 1929