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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 8/29/1961

Funeral services will be held
Friday morning in Washington
D. C. for a former Lockport man
and his wife killed Saturday night
in an auto accident near their
home in Springfield, Ill.
William Morrow Benton, 38. a
1941 graduate of Lockport High
School, and his wife, the former
Mary Catherine Prudy, also 38. of
Washington, D. C, are survived
by three children, Kathy, 15, Barbara,
14, and William Jr., 11.
Mr. Barker left Lockport in 1941
to join the armed forces. After
the war, he and his wife lived in
the Lockport and the Barker area
until they moved to Maryland
eight years ago. Last February,
they moved to their Springfield
home. Mr. Benton is survived also by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
M. Benton, now of Barker, and
three brothers, Robert, of Barker,
the Rev. Benson, of Eden, Paul,
of Tonawanda, and John, of Lock-
port, as well as a sister. Miss
Sarah Benton of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Benton is survived by her
mother, Mrs. Estelle M. Purdy, of
Washington, brothers Nicholas,
Ray, and John, and sisters, Dora
Mae and Shirley.
Friends may call Thursday af-
ternoon or evening at the Sim-
mons Bros. Funeral Home on
Good Hope Rd. S. E. near Min-
neapolis Ave., Washington.
The Friday morning services
will be held at the St. Francis
Xavier Church on Pennsylvania
Ave., Washington. Burial will be in
Cedar Hill National Cemetery at
Sitan, Md.

William married PURDY, Mary Catherine about 29 Jun 1945. Mary (daughter of Estelle M) was born about 1923; died on 26 Aug 1961 in Springfield, Sangamon County, IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]