Ed H. (Slim) Benkendorfer, 76, of Waco died Saturday evening in a Waco hospital.
Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Aderhold Funeral Home Chapel in West, Rev. Vernon Vaughan, pastor of Little Deer Creek Baptist Church in Clifton, Texas, officiated. Burial followed in Closner Cemetery near West.
Mr. Benkendorfer was born Nov. 4, 1900, in West. He had lived in Waco the past 20 years. He was a retired farmer and gin worker.
Survivors include a son, Bill Benkendorfer of Los Angeles, Calif.; daughter, Mrs. Robert (Patsy) Webb of Waco; brother, Arthur Benkendorfer of Waco; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Fowler and Mrs. Amanda Myer, both of Kingsville, and Mrs. Sybil Janke of Leroy; and four grandchildren.
Pallbearers were: Hugo Gorgas, Frank Rejcek, Herb Falkenburg, A.F. Benkendorfer, Jr., Donald Benkendorfer, and Troy E. Fowler.
The West News, West, Texas, Volume 87, No. 32, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 11, 1977, page 5
Obituary courtesy of Find a Grave Contributor Betty Fajkus Marek # 48445083
Ed H. (Slim) Benkendorfer, 76, of Waco died Saturday evening in a Waco hospital.
Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Aderhold Funeral Home Chapel in West, Rev. Vernon Vaughan, pastor of Little Deer Creek Baptist Church in Clifton, Texas, officiated. Burial followed in Closner Cemetery near West.
Mr. Benkendorfer was born Nov. 4, 1900, in West. He had lived in Waco the past 20 years. He was a retired farmer and gin worker.
Survivors include a son, Bill Benkendorfer of Los Angeles, Calif.; daughter, Mrs. Robert (Patsy) Webb of Waco; brother, Arthur Benkendorfer of Waco; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Fowler and Mrs. Amanda Myer, both of Kingsville, and Mrs. Sybil Janke of Leroy; and four grandchildren.
Pallbearers were: Hugo Gorgas, Frank Rejcek, Herb Falkenburg, A.F. Benkendorfer, Jr., Donald Benkendorfer, and Troy E. Fowler.
The West News, West, Texas, Volume 87, No. 32, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 11, 1977, page 5
Obituary courtesy of Find a Grave Contributor Betty Fajkus Marek # 48445083
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