"Aunt Blanche and Uncle Chuck," as we of the Benton community affectionately called them, lived all their adult lives in our community.

Aunt Blanche and Uncle Chuck were not blessed with children, so they "adopted" the children of Benton.

Uncle Chuck always had the time to take a child for a ride with the old team and wagon, time to look a the new calf or cuddle the baby chicks, and admire the little pigs. In his later years, he had the time to just sit and talk.

Aunt Blanche taught a Sunday school class for many years. She helped care for us, loved and cared for our children, and when she passed away, was helping care for our grandchildren.

Aunt Blanche always asked, "What can I do to help?"

We, of the Benton community, miss "Aunt Blanche and Uncle Chuck."

NOTE: Blanche M. (DANT) GOLLIDAY, was born on April 1, 1893, the daughter of Edward Columbus and Margaet Cicelia "Maggie" (CRUM) DANT. She married Charles Arthur "Charley" "Chuck" GOLLIDAY at Dunkerton, Iowa, on February 21, 1921. Charles Arthur "Charley" "Chuck" GOLLIDAY was born in Benton, Iowa, on June 17, 1887, the son of Abner and Martha Jane (POORE) GOLLIDAY, and died February 24, 1968. They were interred at Rose Hill Cemetery, Mount Ayr.

SOURCE: 1887 - Benton, Iowa Centennial - 1987. Pp. 189-90. Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library, Mount Ayr IA

Transcriptions and notes by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2012

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