Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Benedict, Helen Catherine 1955
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Monday, January 3, 1955


Mrs. Helen Benedict, 76, Ionia county register of deeds for the past ten years 
until she retired from office last Friday, died in Bethesda Hospital at 
Cincinnati, Ohio, at 12:10 p.m. Monday.  Mrs. Benedict had gone to Cincinnati 
to spend Christmas with her son, Thane Benedict Jr., and his family.  She was 
stricken with a heart attack a few days ago.

Mrs. Benedict was elected Ionia county register of deeds in November, 1944, as 
a Republican, and she served until last Friday.  She had not sought reelection.

Mrs. Benedict was the wife of the late Thane Benedict, Ionia insurance agent, 
and following his death she operated the Wardle Agency for a short period of 
time.  Later with Mrs. Edna Smith as a partner she operated the Manor on East 
Washington street.  She retired from that work upon her election to county 
office.

Funeral services are to be held from the First Presbyterian church in Ionia 
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. with burial at Highland Park cemetery.  The 
body is being returned to Ionia from the Ohio city by Boynton’s of Ionia.

Surviving are a daughter Mrs. Jane Keiner of East Lansing, a son Thane of 
Cincinnati and a sister Mrs. Earl Pitt of Ionia and six grandchildren.

An Ionia resident since being brought here at the age of three years by her 
parents from Fort Wayne, Indiana, her birthplace, Mrs. Benedict graduated from 
Ionia high school in 1897 and attended Davenport Business College in Grand 
Rapids for one year.  Active in business life since the death of her husband, 
Thane, in 1938, for four years she and her son Thane Jr. operated the Wardle 
Insurance Agency of which she was president.  She sold the firm in 1942.

Mrs. Benedict for one year in 1944 worked as a clerk in the register of deed’s 
office under the late Roy Douglas.  The following year she entered the 
Republican primary and won the race for register, holding the office for five 
successive two-year terms, the last term of which expired just four days ago.  
The retiring register said during a recent interview that “I’ve worked long 
enough.”

Mrs. Benedict was a member of the Ionia business and Professional Women’s club 
and belonged to the First Presbyterian church.  Prior to her death, she had 
planned to retire in Cincinnati, where her son currently resides.


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