Clarence A. Benedict
Born: October 30, 1881 in Iowa1
Died: October 6, 1955 in Des Moines, Polk Co., Iowa1
Buried: Lot 86
Lot Owner: Wm. Pink, purchased in 1908
Married: Josephine Pink in 1918.
Parents: Silas and Martha Turner Benedict1
C. A. Benedict of Granger Dies
Had Been in Hospital Since 1953 - Funeral Services Held at Granger Assumption
Clarence Albert Benedict, a resident of Granger since 1932, died last Thursday, following an illness of several years. He had moved to the Granger community in 1932, employed as a carpenter, until his health failed him some yars ago.
Mr. Benedict, son of Silas and Mary Benedict, was born Oct. 30, 1881, in New Sharon, receiving his education in the New Sharon schools.
As a young man he worked with his father, learning the carpenter trade and followed that vocation until failing health necessitated his retirement seven years ago.
He was married to Josephine Pink of Newton, Iowa, May 24, 1919, at Des Moines where they lived until March 1932, when they moved to the farm near Granger which has been their home ever since.
On May 5, 1953, he entered the Des Moines hospital where he was a patient until his death. He came home occassionally to spend a Sunday, ever hopeful that soon he would be able to again come home to stay, but on Oct. 6, he lost the fight.
He is survived by his wife, 2 sisters, Minnie Hollingsworth of Des Moines, and Laura Gregory of Dallas, Texas, and friends who knew him as Uncle Bennie.
Services were held at Granger Assumption Saturday and interment was at Sugar Grove cemetery near Newton, the family home of Mrs. Benedict. ~ The Madrid Register-News, Madrid, Boone Co., Iowa, Thursday, October 13, 1955, page 1.
1. Certificate of Death, State of Iowa, from Polk County records, Book 26, page 679.
2. Pink family records
Josephine Margaret (Pink) Benedict
Born: July 26, 1883 in Jasper Co., Iowa2
Died: April 16, 19692 in Polk Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 86
Lot Owner: Wm. Pink, purchased in 1908
Married: W. A. Shill
Married: Clarence Benedict in 1918
Parents: William and Mary Klos Pink
Mrs. C. Benedict, Former Resident,
Dies Wednesday
Mrs. C. A. (Josephine) Benedict, 85, Des Moines, former Jasper County resident, died Wednesday afternoon at Karen Acres Nursing Home, Des Moines.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Granger Assumption Catholic Church. Burial will be in Sugar Grove Cemetery, west of Newton.
Sumburg Funeral Home, Madrid, will handle arrangements.
Surviving is a sister, Mrs. May Stewart, Des Moines.
The daughter of William and Mary Pink, she was born on a farm west of Newton.
She was married to C. A. Benedict in 1918 and they moved to Des Moines and later to a farm northeast of Granger. ~ Newton Daily News, April 17, 1969.