Benson, Martha F.

BENSON, YOUNGMAN, BERGER, TANNER, BURGGRAAF, METZGER, LARSON, SCHUMACHER

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Date: 2/12/2008 at 09:51:23

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CLINTON — Martha F. Benson, 83, of Clinton, died Friday, February 1, 2008, at Mercy Medical Center, North Campus, Clinton. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, February 5, 2008, at the Evangelical Free Church with the Rev. Thomas Loyola officiating. Burial will be in the Clinton Lawn Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will be grandsons: Mark Burggraaf, Nathan Burggraaf, Todd Metzger, Russ Melchert, Bud Benson, Rob Benson, Will Benson and Harold Benson. Visitation will be Monday from 4:00 to 8:00p.m. at the Clinton Chapel Snell-Zornig Funeral Home and Crematory.Martha Faye Berger was born on December 30, 1924, in Toledo, Iowa, the daughter of Benjamin Alonzo (Lonnie) and Thelma Rose (Youngman) Berger. She married Paul A. Benson on June 17, 1944, in Toledo, Iowa; he later died November 24, 1982. Martha was a 1943 graduate of Toledo High School. She owned and operated Benson Oil with her husband for 28 years. Martha was a member of the Evangelical Free Church where she held many offices, taught Sunday school, a youth sponsor, church librarian, deaconess and a member of the Gideon Bible Association. Martha is survived by three daughters, Linda (Ralph) Tanner of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Sharon (Jon) Burggraaf of Clinton and Mary Metzger of Fulton, Illinois; one son, Stephen Benson of Fulton; 16 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Donald (Jenny) Berger of Fairfax, IA, Marion (Faye) Berger of Traer, Iowa, one sister, Ruth (Gerald) Larson of Marshalltown, Iowa. Martha is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Paul, one brother, Merle, one granddaughter, Hope, a great-grandson, Louis Schumacher, and her son-in-law, Fred Metzger.The family requests that memorials be made to the Evangelical Free Church or the Gideon Bibles.Online condolences can be made to the family by visiting her obituary at www.snellzornig.com.Death date: Feb. 1, 2008
Published in the Clinton Herald from 2/4/2008 - 2/6/2008.