HEMET, Calif. ÿ Taft Benson returned to his eternal home on Saturday, July 29, 2000. He was 83 years old. He was greeted by his wife of 58 years, Ruth, his parents, brother and sisters.
He was born the second in a family of four on Sept. 20, 1916, in Logan, Utah, to Ezra Taft Benson and Vera Thatcher Benson. The family moved to a farm in Weston, Idaho. There he learned at an early age the value of hard work. He attended school in Weston for two years, then he attended a one-room school house called Silver Star. There was one teacher who taught grades one through eight. He and his sister Willa were janitors at the school. They rode their horses three-fourths of a mile. They would pasture them next to the school until it was time to go home.
Taft married Nellie Orvin on June 10, 1934, in the Logan Temple. They were later divorced.
He married Ruth Minerva Biggs on April 14, 1938, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The marriage was later solemnized in the Los Angeles Temple on Jan. 19, 1985. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in April of 1985.
They moved to California in 1938, where he operated his own Grading Construction company until his retirement, then they moved to Hemet, Calif.
He is survived by his daughter, Sharron Benson Larsen of Logan; his stepchildren, Glen Lavor Rawlins (Rose) of Bonsal, Calif., and Faye Rogers-Cohen (Sherman) of Sun City West, Ariz.; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth; his parents; his brother Grant Benson and his wife, Bernus; his sisters Willa Benson Lloyd and her husband, Dean, and Loa Benson Jeppsen and her husband, Lester.
Services and interment will be held Thursday, Aug. 3, at the Greenwood Park Mortuary in San Diego, Calif.
He was born the second in a family of four on Sept. 20, 1916, in Logan, Utah, to Ezra Taft Benson and Vera Thatcher Benson. The family moved to a farm in Weston, Idaho. There he learned at an early age the value of hard work. He attended school in Weston for two years, then he attended a one-room school house called Silver Star. There was one teacher who taught grades one through eight. He and his sister Willa were janitors at the school. They rode their horses three-fourths of a mile. They would pasture them next to the school until it was time to go home.
Taft married Nellie Orvin on June 10, 1934, in the Logan Temple. They were later divorced.
He married Ruth Minerva Biggs on April 14, 1938, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The marriage was later solemnized in the Los Angeles Temple on Jan. 19, 1985. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in April of 1985.
They moved to California in 1938, where he operated his own Grading Construction company until his retirement, then they moved to Hemet, Calif.
He is survived by his daughter, Sharron Benson Larsen of Logan; his stepchildren, Glen Lavor Rawlins (Rose) of Bonsal, Calif., and Faye Rogers-Cohen (Sherman) of Sun City West, Ariz.; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth; his parents; his brother Grant Benson and his wife, Bernus; his sisters Willa Benson Lloyd and her husband, Dean, and Loa Benson Jeppsen and her husband, Lester.
Services and interment will be held Thursday, Aug. 3, at the Greenwood Park Mortuary in San Diego, Calif.
HEMET, Calif. ÿ Taft Benson returned to his eternal home on Saturday, July 29, 2000. He was 83 years old. He was greeted by his wife of 58 years, Ruth, his parents, brother and sisters.
He was born the second in a family of four on Sept. 20, 1916, in Logan, Utah, to Ezra Taft Benson and Vera Thatcher Benson. The family moved to a farm in Weston, Idaho. There he learned at an early age the value of hard work. He attended school in Weston for two years, then he attended a one-room school house called Silver Star. There was one teacher who taught grades one through eight. He and his sister Willa were janitors at the school. They rode their horses three-fourths of a mile. They would pasture them next to the school until it was time to go home.
Taft married Nellie Orvin on June 10, 1934, in the Logan Temple. They were later divorced.
He married Ruth Minerva Biggs on April 14, 1938, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The marriage was later solemnized in the Los Angeles Temple on Jan. 19, 1985. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in April of 1985.
They moved to California in 1938, where he operated his own Grading Construction company until his retirement, then they moved to Hemet, Calif.
He is survived by his daughter, Sharron Benson Larsen of Logan; his stepchildren, Glen Lavor Rawlins (Rose) of Bonsal, Calif., and Faye Rogers-Cohen (Sherman) of Sun City West, Ariz.; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth; his parents; his brother Grant Benson and his wife, Bernus; his sisters Willa Benson Lloyd and her husband, Dean, and Loa Benson Jeppsen and her husband, Lester.
Services and interment will be held Thursday, Aug. 3, at the Greenwood Park Mortuary in San Diego, Calif.
He was born the second in a family of four on Sept. 20, 1916, in Logan, Utah, to Ezra Taft Benson and Vera Thatcher Benson. The family moved to a farm in Weston, Idaho. There he learned at an early age the value of hard work. He attended school in Weston for two years, then he attended a one-room school house called Silver Star. There was one teacher who taught grades one through eight. He and his sister Willa were janitors at the school. They rode their horses three-fourths of a mile. They would pasture them next to the school until it was time to go home.
Taft married Nellie Orvin on June 10, 1934, in the Logan Temple. They were later divorced.
He married Ruth Minerva Biggs on April 14, 1938, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The marriage was later solemnized in the Los Angeles Temple on Jan. 19, 1985. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in April of 1985.
They moved to California in 1938, where he operated his own Grading Construction company until his retirement, then they moved to Hemet, Calif.
He is survived by his daughter, Sharron Benson Larsen of Logan; his stepchildren, Glen Lavor Rawlins (Rose) of Bonsal, Calif., and Faye Rogers-Cohen (Sherman) of Sun City West, Ariz.; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth; his parents; his brother Grant Benson and his wife, Bernus; his sisters Willa Benson Lloyd and her husband, Dean, and Loa Benson Jeppsen and her husband, Lester.
Services and interment will be held Thursday, Aug. 3, at the Greenwood Park Mortuary in San Diego, Calif.
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