Gayle Brockway 1980 - 1982

BROCKWAY , BENZ, HECKENBERG, STOUT

Posted By: debbie (email)
Date: 6/7/2007 at 07:18:46

The Burlington Hawkeye, Burlington, Iowa Thursday July 15, 1982, page 1

GI family loses 3 in car crash

Three members of a Hawk Eyeland family died in a head on collision near Eolia, Mo., at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Dead are Janell Brockway, 28, her daughter, Gayle, 19 months and her son, Karl, three months. They were the daughter and grandchildren of Donald and Evelyn Keener Benz, 919 N. Eighth.
The father, Second Lt. Charles Brockway; and son, David, 3, are hospitalized at St. Peters, Mo., with multiple injuries and are in stable condition.
The Missouri Highway Patrol said Brockway, 28, was taking his family to a new post in Georgia when his station wagon crossed the center line of US 61 and crashed into a truck.
The family had been visiting the Benzes and Brockway's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Brockway, Wayland. Brockway had been transferred from Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.
Janell Brockway was born in Burlington, Aug. 14, 1953. She graduated from Burlington High School, was a Mormon missionary in California before she married Charles Brockway, June 6, 1978, in Washington, D.C.
Surviving besides her husband and parents are six brothers, Charles Benz, West Burlington, and Terry, Randall, Kevin, Roger and Darren Benz, all of Burlington; sister, Joyce Heckenberg, Burlington; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Benz, Fairwater, Wis.
The children born at Fort Leavenworth in 1980 and last April, also leave as immediate survivors a great-grandmother, Florence Stout of Burlington.
Joint funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday, Church of Latter Day Saints, Bishop Terry L. Griffith; Forest Home Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant. A memorial has been established at the Beatty Funeral Homes, Mt. Pleasant and Wayland.