STANLEY - Ross Heiskell Benson, 84, of Stanley, died Monday morning at Virginia Home for Incurables in Richmond where he had been a patient four years.
Mr. Benson was born May 7, 1883 in Maryland and was a son of the late Henry and Mariella Booton Benson.
He served as exchange manager at Camp Pickett during World War II. He had played
semi-professional baseball and in later yeans was engaged in farming.
He was married twice. Both of his wives, the former Emma Crigler and the former Julia Coleman, are dead.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mariella Worley of Lynchburg; three grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; two brothers, Lauck Benson of Maryland and Theodore Benson of Chevy Chase, Md., and two sisters, Mrs. Mattee Atwill of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Gertrude McKeon of Dalton, Pa.
The funeral will be conducted 2 p.m. Wednesday at Bradley Funeral Home by Elder Charles W. Alderton. Burial will be in Graves Chapel Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Harry, Clark, Nelson and Ernest Long, Johnny Huffman and George
Jones.
The family will receive friends 7-8:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Daily News Record, 18 Jul 1967
Mr. Benson was born May 7, 1883 in Maryland and was a son of the late Henry and Mariella Booton Benson.
He served as exchange manager at Camp Pickett during World War II. He had played
semi-professional baseball and in later yeans was engaged in farming.
He was married twice. Both of his wives, the former Emma Crigler and the former Julia Coleman, are dead.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mariella Worley of Lynchburg; three grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; two brothers, Lauck Benson of Maryland and Theodore Benson of Chevy Chase, Md., and two sisters, Mrs. Mattee Atwill of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Gertrude McKeon of Dalton, Pa.
The funeral will be conducted 2 p.m. Wednesday at Bradley Funeral Home by Elder Charles W. Alderton. Burial will be in Graves Chapel Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Harry, Clark, Nelson and Ernest Long, Johnny Huffman and George
Jones.
The family will receive friends 7-8:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Daily News Record, 18 Jul 1967
STANLEY - Ross Heiskell Benson, 84, of Stanley, died Monday morning at Virginia Home for Incurables in Richmond where he had been a patient four years.
Mr. Benson was born May 7, 1883 in Maryland and was a son of the late Henry and Mariella Booton Benson.
He served as exchange manager at Camp Pickett during World War II. He had played
semi-professional baseball and in later yeans was engaged in farming.
He was married twice. Both of his wives, the former Emma Crigler and the former Julia Coleman, are dead.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mariella Worley of Lynchburg; three grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; two brothers, Lauck Benson of Maryland and Theodore Benson of Chevy Chase, Md., and two sisters, Mrs. Mattee Atwill of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Gertrude McKeon of Dalton, Pa.
The funeral will be conducted 2 p.m. Wednesday at Bradley Funeral Home by Elder Charles W. Alderton. Burial will be in Graves Chapel Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Harry, Clark, Nelson and Ernest Long, Johnny Huffman and George
Jones.
The family will receive friends 7-8:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Daily News Record, 18 Jul 1967
Mr. Benson was born May 7, 1883 in Maryland and was a son of the late Henry and Mariella Booton Benson.
He served as exchange manager at Camp Pickett during World War II. He had played
semi-professional baseball and in later yeans was engaged in farming.
He was married twice. Both of his wives, the former Emma Crigler and the former Julia Coleman, are dead.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mariella Worley of Lynchburg; three grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; two brothers, Lauck Benson of Maryland and Theodore Benson of Chevy Chase, Md., and two sisters, Mrs. Mattee Atwill of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Gertrude McKeon of Dalton, Pa.
The funeral will be conducted 2 p.m. Wednesday at Bradley Funeral Home by Elder Charles W. Alderton. Burial will be in Graves Chapel Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Harry, Clark, Nelson and Ernest Long, Johnny Huffman and George
Jones.
The family will receive friends 7-8:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Daily News Record, 18 Jul 1967
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