Paul Ephraim Benjamin  Veteran

BIRTH

7 Jul 1892

McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska, USA

DEATH

30 Jun 1958 (aged 65)

Redlands, San Bernardino County, California, USA

BURIAL

Montecito Memorial Park

Colton, San Bernardino County, California

 

Paul E. Benjamin of Terracina Boulevard in Redlands, born in McCook, Nebraska, have lived in Redlands for five years and California for 40 years, died Monday at a Redlands hospital at the age of 65. A veteran of World War 1, he had worked at Norton Air Force Base as a dispatcher for four nd a half years. He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Bryn Mawr. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Harold Frost of San Fernando, Mrs. Richard Bohlander of El Centro, Mrs. John Doyle of Lincoln, Neb., and Mrs. Jack Arnold of Newhall; three sisters, Mrs. Alice B. Walker of Sharon Springs,Kansas, Sister Theona OSF of Beach Grove, Indiana, and Sister Clare OP of McCook, Neb., and five grandchildren. Rosary will be recited 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Sacred Heart Church in Bryn Mawr. Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. on Wednesday at Sacred Heart Church. The body will lie in state at Stephens & Bobbitt Funeral Interment is pending.
information from an obituary published in the SAN BERNARDINO SUN on July 1, 1958

from ANCESTRY.COM, Paul Ephram Benjamin was born on July 7, 1892 in McCook, Nebraska to Ephraim Benjamin of Canada and Margaret (Maggie) Eastwood of Illinois, one of their six children. He married Alice ... and they had five children. He died on June 30, 1958 in San Bernardino.
The spelling of his middle name varies from Ephram, Ephren in the CALIFORNIA DEATH INDEX, Ephraim and the same for his father as Ephraim, Ephram and Ephrem.

Inscription

PAUL E. BENJAMIN / 1892 (slanting cross) 1958