Hattie, Curtis, Vearl and Lillie Benskin - 1921
Photo courtesy of Larry Hutchinson, Marshalltown, Iowa
Curtis W. Benskin
Born: 17 Mar 1887 in Galesburg, Jasper Co., Iowa
Died: May 7, 1951 in Wesley, Kossuth Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 105, plot 1
Lot Owner: Curtis Benskin, purchased in 1932
Married: Lillie Mae Hutchinson on December 30, 1908 in Algona, Kossuth Co., Iowa
Children: Arthur Curtis, Hattie and Vearl
Parents: Joseph and Hattie (Trimble) Benskin
Curtis Benskin, Former Resident, Dies at Wesley
Curtis W. Benskin, 63, former resident of Jasper county, died yesterday morning at his home in Wesley after a lingering illness. He underwent surgery for cancer last summer and was confined to his bed for several weeks previous to his death.
Born in Galesburg, March 17, 1888, Mr. Benskin was the son of Joseph and Hattie Trimble Benskin. He was educated in Jasper and Marshall county rural schools.
Mr. Benskin lived most of his life in Jasper and Marshall counties. During his youth and for 20 years after his marriage to Lillie Hutchinson, he lived on his father's farm near Laurel.
After his retirement from farming in 1940, Mr. Benskin lived in Wesley where he was a law-enforcement officer and later a salesman.
Mr. Benskin was precede in death by his mother, who died when he was three, and his father.
His survivors include his wife; his stepmother, Mrs. Sophie Mathers, Laurel; two children, Mrs. Donald Kinnaird, Grinnell, and Vearl, Wesley; two half brothers, Bert and Harley of Laurel; a half sister, Mrs. Merle Paul of Laurel, and several grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at nine o'clock Thursday morning in the Wesley Methodist church were Mr. Benskin was a member. There will be graveside rites at three o'clock in the afternoon at the Sugar Grove cemetery near Metz. The Toland Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements. - Newton Daily News, May 8, 1951
Lillie Mae (Hutchinson) Benskin
Born: January 30, 1890 in Jasper Co., Iowa
Died: August 30, 1969 in Grinnell, Poweshiek Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 105, plot 2
Lot Owner: Curtis Benskin, purchased in 1932
Married: Curtis Benskin on December 30, 1908 in Algona, Kossuth Co., Iowa
Children: Arthur Curtis, Hattie and Vearl
Parents: William E. and Anna Elizabeth (Williams) Hutchinson1
Lillie M. Benskin Rites Conducted
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today, Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the Smith Funeral Home, for Mrs. Lillie Mae Benskin, 79, of the Mayflower Home, she died Saturday evening at her apartment of an apparent heart condition.
The Rev. Newell E. Davis, pastor of the United Church of Christ, and the Rev. Ralph Beebe of the Mayflower Home, officiated at the services. Organist was Mrs. Williard Heffner and vocalist was Mrs. Keith Stahl.
Pallbearers were Wendel Benskin, Earl Kinnaird, Wayne Kinnaird, Wendell Kinnaird, Roger McCuley and Roger Moyer.
Flower bearers were Mr. and Mrs. Joe See.
Burial was in Sugar Grove Cemetery near Metz, Iowa.
The daughter of William E. and Anna E. Williams Hutchinson, Mrs. Benskin was born near Kellogg, Iowa on Jan. 30, 1890.
On Dec. 30, 1908, she was married to Curtis W. Benskin near Algona, Iowa. To this marriage three children were born.
Soon after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Benskin farmed near Selby, S. Dak., for five years. While there, their first son, Arthur Curtis Benskin, died in infancy.
In 1913, Mr. and Mrs. Benskin moved to Wesley, Iowa, and in 1902 they moved to a farm near Laurel, Iowa, where they farmed for 20 years. They then returned to Wesley and the couple lived their until Mr. Benskin died in 1951. Mrs. Benskin made her home in Grinnell since 1953 and had lived at the Mayflower Home for almost 15 years.
Mrs. Benskin was a member of the United Church of Christ in Grinnell.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Hattie Mae Kinnaird of Des Moines; one son, Vearl S. Benskin of Des Moines; 12 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; three brothers, Lloyd Hutchinson, Kellogg, Elmer Hutchinson, Eagle Grove and Franklin Hutchinson, Alden; and four sisters - Mrs. Albert (Lenora) Lorh and Mrs. Carl (Alice) Chalstrom of Ft. Dodge, Mrs. Ralph (Myrtle) Faircloth of Marshalltown, and Mrs. Clarence (Zella) Burgeson of Ossian, Iowa.
Mrs. Benskin was preceded in death by her husband, one son, two brothers and one sister. ~ Name of Paper unknown, August 30, 1969.
1. For information on Hutchinson family history, contact Larry Hutchinson
