Obit for: Annie H. (Young) Benge
Cherokee Co. OK Archives 
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TAHLEQUAH, OK
TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
AUGUST 6, 2002

Fort Gibson--

Funeral Services for Annie H Benge, 86 of Fort Gibson will be at 10 a.m. August 7, 2002
at the Valley View Church in Fort Gibson with Rev. Pat Alexander and Rev. Don Rhyne
officiating.  

Burial will follow at the Citizens Cemetery under the direction of the Reed-Culver
Funeral Home in Tahlequah. 


Visitation will be held from 8-9p.m. Tuesday, August 6 at the Reed-Culver Funeral Home.  

Pallbearers include Ben roe, Dowell Craft, Tom McFarland, Archie Colston, Greg Vinson
and Danny Scott.  

Annie H Benge was born January 11, 1916 in Clay County, Arkansas, the daughter of Mary
Ann "Molly" (Sanderson) Young and she passed this life on Sunday august 4, 2002 at the
home of her daughter in Fort Gibson.
 

Annie's family moved to Oklahoma when she was a child.

She attended Wildcat School.

Annie was married to Theodore Blue Benge February 12, 1936 in Fort Gibson.

She was a lifelong homemaker and avid gardener, who loved animals and birds.

Her lifelong concern was to make sure all birds and animals that came to her had food
and water year round.


Benge was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two sons, Theodore (Teddy) Jr.
and Danny Benge. ; six brothers, Jack, Cecil, Jasper "Chub", Virgil, Willard and Murl;
one sister, Margaret, who died as a young child; and three grandchildren, Cletus, Joel
and Leslie Bray.  

She is survived by three daughters; Bessie Mae and J.C. Bray of Muskogee, Nellie Jean
Davis and her husband Bill L. of  Tahlequah, Mary M Williams of  the home.  Three
granddaughters, Lee Ann Bray of  Muskogee, Samantha A Davis of Penrose, Colorado and
Gina  Williams-Campbell and husband Gene of Fort Gibson. Grandson, Kelly Bray of 
Muskogee.  Three sisters, Marie Sanders of Muskogee, Ruby Turner of Fort Gibson and
Dolly Jones of Idaho; one brother Charles Woods of Fort  Gibosn and many other
relatives and friends.