Green, Benjamin Lionel 1884 - 1957

GREEN, BAGOUS, WINKLER, NUS, GLETTY, SPIELMAN, HAMMEETER

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 10/16/2024 at 18:47:08

Clayton County Register, 20 June 1957.

Services for Benjamin Lionel Green, 72, were held Thursday at the Methodist church at 2 o'clock with burial in Hill Crest cemetery.

Bearers were: H. H. Eder, Bernard Olinger and George Miller, Volga; Clyde Cousins and Ernest Eden, Arlington; and Oscar Lamphier, Strawberry Point.

The Rev. J. W. Bearse, pastor, had charge of the services.

The organist, Mrs. W. K. Oldfather, accompanied the quartet, Harry Reynolds, Dale Reynolds, Don Whitford and Wallace Oldfather, in providing the funeral songs.

Mr. Green was born Sept. 25, 1884, and died June 11, 1957 at the Sheperd nursing home in Oelwein, where he had been a patient for nearly two weeks. Previously, he was hospitalized at Iowa City. He had made his home with his son Kenneth on their farm southeast of Volga, better known as the Emmet McDermott place.

Surviving are three sons and three daughters: Kenneth, Strawberry Point; Leslie, Cleveland, O.; Wayne, Cuppertina, Calif.; Mrs. Roy (Thelma) Bagous, Homer, Nebr.; Mrs. Max (Shirley) Winkler, Arlington; Mrs. Leon (Darlene) Nus, Fairbank; 11 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild; a brother, George Green, Sutherlin, Ore.; and two sisters, Mrs. Della Hammeetter, Sumner, and Mrs. Bertha Spielman, Atwater, Minn.

Mr. Green, a former long-time farmer in Fayette county, was preceded in death by his wife, the former Bessie Gletty.