HATTIE ELLEN BENNER DAVID
65, a highly respected life-long resident of Marrs
township and a member of a prominent Marrs township
family died at 12:13 a.m. today (7 Dec
1953) in the Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. She was the wife of
Harvey A David, a Marrs township farmer.
A daughter of James A Benner and Lucinda Darnell Benner, Mrs.
David had spent her entire life as a resident of the same farm, the Benner
homestead.
A lengthly illness of a complication of
diseases was fatal. She entered the hospital for the last time five days
prior to her death.
The body is at the Short-Niehaus Funeral
Home in Mt. Vernon where Rev. Rodney Holdier,
Owensville General Baptist Church pastor will conduct the funeral service in
the Short Niehaus chapel at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Burial will be in the
Mrs. David was a member of the former
Surviving, in addition to the husband are a daughter, Mrs. Charles
Heines, Evansville; a granddaughter, Carlo Jo Heines; two brothers, Lee and Angelo Benner, Mt. Vernon and
four sisters, Mrs. John M Cully, Mrs. Lula Derrington
and Mrs. Bertha Sartain all of Evansville, and Mrs.
Lawrence Culley, R1, Mt. Vernon.
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Originally submitted by Betty Sellers