Benjamin Lee Sanford

SANFORD

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/6/2014 at 12:06:03

Death Notices

BENJAMIN LEE SANFORD

Funeral services for Benjamin Lee Sanford, 89, who died Tuesday in Davenport Nursing Home, will be 3 p.m. Friday in McGinnis Funeral Home, Bettendorf. Burial will be in Glendale Cemetery, LeClaire.

A life resident of LeClaire, Mr. Sanford had once been a deckhand on steamboats on the Mississippi.

Survivors include a nephew, Charles Sanford, LeClaire, and a cousin John Gilbert, LeClaire.

Source: Morning Democrat, Davenport, Ia., 08 Apr 1964, p. 14.

Death Notices

LECLAIRE

B. L. Sanford, Life Resident, Is Dead at 89.

Benjamin Lee Sanford, 89, a life resident of LeClaire who resided until he became ill in the home in which he was born, died Tuesday evening in Davenport Nursing Home after an extended illness.

Mr. Sanford had formerly worked on the river and on steam boats.

Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Friday in McGinnis Chapel, Bettendorf, with the Rev. Sherman Smith of Calvary Gospel Church, LeClaire, officiating.

Burial will be in Glendale Cemetery, LeClaire.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

Source: The Daily Times, Davenport, Ia., 08 Apr 1964, p. 6.

Bennie Sanford, as the accused is known by his friends, belongs to a well known family at LeClaire. His father was drowned at the time of the wreck of the Jennie Gilchrist at the Davenport bridge years ago. “Bennie” has figured as a ”rooster” on the river for some years past and is widely known on account of his diminutive statue, said to be due to excessive use of tobacco when “Bennie” was a very small boy.

Source: Davenport Republican, Davenport, Ia., 29 Mar 1901, p. 8.