Obit for Joe Weldon Benson (b525) - Stephens County OK Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 16 Oct 2003 Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== 20 & 21 Dec 1996 Joe Weldon Benson DIMMITT - Joe Weldon Benson, 85, died Thursday, Dec. 19, 1996. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Rusty Dickerson, pastor, and Bonnie Dunnsworth, pastor of Wesley United Methodist, officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery by Gililland-Watson Funeral Home. Mr. Benson was born in Comanche, Okla., and moved to Dimmitt in 1944. He married Gladys Jones in 1962 at Clovis, N.M. He was a member of First United Methodist Church and a Texaco wholesaler. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Myrna Kay Benson, in 1949. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Susan Royal of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; a granddaughter. The family suggests memorials be to Kings Manor or Westgate Manor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm