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The Evansville Review

March 1953

Evansville, Union Township, Rock County, Wisconsin

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Sidney Martin Benway Passes Tuesday
Evansville Man was Night Watchman for Grange Store 23 Years
Sidney Martin BENWAY, 69, resident of this area most of his life, died at 1:20 a.m.
Tuesday in his home following several months' illness.
The son of Henry and Elizabeth BENWAY, he was born May 16, 1883, in Belle
Plaines, Wis. The family moved to Union Township when he was two years old. Mr. BENWAY's first wife, died and he was married to [Mrs.] Alice BALCH, Milton, Oct. 29, 1927. He was employed as a night watchman at the Grange Store here for 23 years until retiring 2 1/2 years ago.
Surviving are his wife; two daughers, Mrs. Eugene HASKINS, state of Oregon, and
Mrs. William McCLURE, Racine; a son, Carl POPPLEMAN, Racine, five stepchildren, Mrs. Harry COLE, Edwin and Erford BALCH, Evansville, Mrs. Herman KUTZ, Fort Atkinson, and Mrs. Edward WRIGHT, Milton Junction.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Roderick-Ward Funeral
Home, The Rev. James Saunders of the Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery.
 
Courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery.

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