Bingham Bulletin | 1942-03-20 | Page 1 | Funeral Services for Father of Mrs. Flossie Ramsey Held

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR FATHER OF MRS. FLOSSIE RAMSEY HELD Funeral services were held last Friday afternoon in the Paro-wan Paro-wan East LDS ward chapel for Alvin Benson, 82, who died March 10 at his home in Parowan. Paro-wan. A daughter of Mr. Benson, Mrs. Flossie Ramsey, is well-known well-known in Bingham Canyon. Mrs. Ramsey attended funeral services. ser-vices. Mr. Benson was born in Paro-wan Paro-wan November 17, 1859, a son of Richard and Phoebe Forrester Forrest-er Benson. He was a former chaplain cha-plain of the Utah legislature and was first sheriff of Iron county after Utah became a state. He married Elizabeth Orton in St. George November 16, 1881. She died in May, 1941. He lived in Parowan all his life. Burial was in the Parowan cemetery. Besides Mrs. Ramsey survivors include two -eons, Alvin A. Benson Ben-son of Los Angeles and Clifford H. Benson of Toppenish, Wash.; and the following daughters, Mrs. Deane B. Tinkler of Altadena, Calif.; Mrs. Jane B. Mitchell and Roberta B. Rowley of Parowan.