World War II Veteran
Benjamin Trout
MOUNT VERNON -- Benjamin Harrison Trout, 78, died Thursday, Dec. 14, 2000, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville of cancer.
He worked 25 years at Farm Bureau Oil Production Co. and retired in 1987 after 10 years at Ashland Oil Co.
He was a World War II Army veteran, a member of First Baptist Church and a former member of Veterans of Foreign Wars in Carmi, Ill.
Surviving are his wife of 55 years, Betty (Tweedy); a daughter, Judy Slygh of Mount Vernon; two sons, David and Gary, both of Mount Vernon; eight grandchildren, Jenny, David and Dustin Trout, Shannon Slygh-Robertson, Sally and Cyndi Slygh, Kristie Medcalf and Lori Carr; five great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Boone Funeral Home Mount Vernon Chapel, with burial in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church.
--The Evansville Courier and Press
(Evansville, IN), Fri., Dec. 15, 2000, Pg. 16
Benjamin Trout
MOUNT VERNON -- Benjamin Harrison Trout, 78, died Thursday, Dec. 14, 2000, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville of cancer.
He worked 25 years at Farm Bureau Oil Production Co. and retired in 1987 after 10 years at Ashland Oil Co.
He was a World War II Army veteran, a member of First Baptist Church and a former member of Veterans of Foreign Wars in Carmi, Ill.
Surviving are his wife of 55 years, Betty (Tweedy); a daughter, Judy Slygh of Mount Vernon; two sons, David and Gary, both of Mount Vernon; eight grandchildren, Jenny, David and Dustin Trout, Shannon Slygh-Robertson, Sally and Cyndi Slygh, Kristie Medcalf and Lori Carr; five great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Boone Funeral Home Mount Vernon Chapel, with burial in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church.
--The Evansville Courier and Press
(Evansville, IN), Fri., Dec. 15, 2000, Pg. 16
World War II Veteran
Benjamin Trout
MOUNT VERNON -- Benjamin Harrison Trout, 78, died Thursday, Dec. 14, 2000, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville of cancer.
He worked 25 years at Farm Bureau Oil Production Co. and retired in 1987 after 10 years at Ashland Oil Co.
He was a World War II Army veteran, a member of First Baptist Church and a former member of Veterans of Foreign Wars in Carmi, Ill.
Surviving are his wife of 55 years, Betty (Tweedy); a daughter, Judy Slygh of Mount Vernon; two sons, David and Gary, both of Mount Vernon; eight grandchildren, Jenny, David and Dustin Trout, Shannon Slygh-Robertson, Sally and Cyndi Slygh, Kristie Medcalf and Lori Carr; five great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Boone Funeral Home Mount Vernon Chapel, with burial in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church.
--The Evansville Courier and Press
(Evansville, IN), Fri., Dec. 15, 2000, Pg. 16
Benjamin Trout
MOUNT VERNON -- Benjamin Harrison Trout, 78, died Thursday, Dec. 14, 2000, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville of cancer.
He worked 25 years at Farm Bureau Oil Production Co. and retired in 1987 after 10 years at Ashland Oil Co.
He was a World War II Army veteran, a member of First Baptist Church and a former member of Veterans of Foreign Wars in Carmi, Ill.
Surviving are his wife of 55 years, Betty (Tweedy); a daughter, Judy Slygh of Mount Vernon; two sons, David and Gary, both of Mount Vernon; eight grandchildren, Jenny, David and Dustin Trout, Shannon Slygh-Robertson, Sally and Cyndi Slygh, Kristie Medcalf and Lori Carr; five great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Boone Funeral Home Mount Vernon Chapel, with burial in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church.
--The Evansville Courier and Press
(Evansville, IN), Fri., Dec. 15, 2000, Pg. 16
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BENJAMIN H TROUT
PFC US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
APR 7 1922 - DEC 14 2000
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Husband of Betty J.
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