Article: Alma Benson

LODI -- Alma L. (Warnes) Benson passed away Oct. 7, 2009. She was born Nov. 26, 1912, to Elijah Emmet and Matilda Caroline (Heffelfinger) Warnes in Lake Township, Ashland County. She graduated from Ashland High School in the class of 1930, and lived her entire life in Ashland and Lodi.

Before marriage she was employed as the office secretary at the Ashland Buick, Cadillac garage. She helped install the GM bookkeeping system in several dealerships.

She was married Aug. 8, 1933, to Adelbert H. "Deb" Benson, in Ashland Trinity Lutheran Church at the former location, corner of Church and Third Streets, where she accepted her Christian faith as a child. After she married, she became a member of ...

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