Bremer County IA Archives Obituaries.....Benzine, August A. February 19, 1972
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Sumner Gazette February 24, 1972
August A. Benzine died Saturday at Waterloo

August A. Benzine, 76, WWI veteran and longtime resident of Sumner, died at 5:25 
a.m. Saturday, Feb. 19 at Schodtz Memorial Hospital, Waterloo, following a 
coronary occlusion. 

Funeral services were held Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 11 a.m. at the Nottger Funeral 
Home Chapel, Waterloo, with the Rev. Homer Larsen and the Rev. Luther Wachholz, 
pastors of Nazareth Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial was in St. John 
American Lutheran Cemetery north of Sumner. The Thomas K. Woods Post No. 223, 
American Legion of Sumner, conducted military rites at the graveside.

August Benzine was born Jan. 22, 1896 in Bremer County, Iowa, the son of August 
and Anna Kahle Benzine.

He served in the U. S. Army in World War I,  including overseas duty with the 
American. Expeditionary forces.

On Sept. 14, 1919, he was united in marriage with Alice Bartels at St. John 
American Lutheran Church, Sumner. 

Mr. Benzine was a self-employed mechanic in Sumner until 1948 when he and his 
wife moved to Cedar Falls. He was employed as a painter for a construction 
company when he retired in 1963.

Mr. Benzine was a member of the Nazareth Lutheran Church of Cedar Falls, the 
Thomas E. Woods Post, No. 223, American Legion of Sumner and a former member of 
the Sumner Volunteer Fire Department. 

He is survived by his wife, Alice; two daughter, Neva, Mrs. Harry Wilson of 
Sumner and Izora, Mrs. Donald Farnsworth of Burbank, California, and four 
grandchildren. 

He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, one sister, and one 
step sister

Sumner Gazette February 24, 1972

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