Emily Benge Coghlan

COGHLAN, BENGE, ALLEN, BERRY, LONG, LEWIS, STANLEY, PHILLIPS

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 5/9/2006 at 19:56:53

Winterset Madisonian
1963

MRS. ED COGHLAN DIES AT 38 YEARS

Winterset Woman Survived By Four Daughters at Home

Mrs. Edgar R. Coghlan of Winterset died at Madison county Memorial hospital here Sunday, Sept. 29, at the age of 38 years. She was a life-time resident of the Winterset community.

Mrs. Coghlan was the former Emily Elizabeth Benge, daughter of Harlan and Mabel Allen Benge. She was born in Madison county Aug. 28, 1925. She was married Dec. 14, 1946 to Edgar R. Coghlan.

She was a member of the Methodist church.

Mrs. Coghlan is survived by her husband; four daughters at home, Linda, Lana, Reta and Loretta; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Benge of Winterset, and her grandmother, Mrs. Perry Benge of Winterset. She also leaves 11 brothers and sisters: Herb Benge, Mrs. Ethel Berry, Harry, Mary, William and Delbert Benge, all of Winterset; Mrs. Ilene Long of Marshalltwon, Mrs. Shirley Lewis and Eleanor Benge of Lewis; and Mrs. Gloria Stanley and Mrs. Vicki Phillips of Des Moines.

Funeral services were to be held this Wednesday at 2 p.m. from the Wilson Funeral home conducted by the Rev. Walter Samp of Winterset. Burial was to be made in the Winterset cemetery.