BENN, Maurice Russell 1923-2000

BENN, IRWIN, MANLEY, HOURIHAN, STEPHENS, CAMPBELL, JOHNSON, WATERS, MCMENAMIN

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Date: 3/5/2012 at 05:43:18

Fairfield Ledger
Monday, March 27, 2000

Marice Russell BENN

Maurice Russell BENN, 77, died at 8:25 p.m. Saturday, March 25, 2000, at Bloomfield Care Center in Bloomfield.

The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Behner Funeral Home with the Rev. Jim Wotherspoon officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Family visitation will be from 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials can be made to First Baptist Church.

Mr. BENN was born Jan. 28, 1923, near Farson, the son of Abram Alexander and Charlotte IRWIN BENN. He married Marjorie Jean MANLEY March 31, 1945, in Muscatine. She died March 27, 1991.

Mr. BENN had lived most of his life in the Fairfield community until moving to Mount Pleasant in February 1993. He graduated from Fairfield High School in 1941. He was a farmer in Lockridge Township and was employed at ACCO in Fairfield. He was a member of First Baptist Church.

Survivors include four daughters, Linda HOURIHAN of Mount Pleasant, Margaret STEPHENS of Bloomfield, Patricia CAMPBELL of Ames and Mary JOHNSON of Story City; 12 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Doris WATERS of Mesa, Ariz.

In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents; and one sister, Ruth Elizabeth McMENAMIN.

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Admin. note: Buried in Lot 2nd.174 with wife Marjorie.