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Submitted: 1/11/13 • Approved: 1/11/13 • Last Updated: 1/14/13 • R810797-G810256-S3
Feb 10 1904 - Sept 8 1995
*Obituary
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
Sunday, September 10, 1995
Ella E. Benjamin
SILOAM SPRINGS — Ella Elisabeth Benjamin, 91, of Siloam Springs, died Sep. 8, 1995, at Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital. She was born Feb. 10, 1904, to Joseph Dayton and Mary Frances Alice Powell Rough. She moved to Siloam Springs in 1992 from San Diego. She was an ordained minister and attended the First Assembly Church of God in Siloam Springs.
Survivors include six sons, David Higgins of Tennessee, Edward Higgins of Arkansas, and Joseph Higgins, Samuel Higgins, Phillip Higgins and Glen Higgins, all of California; three daughters, Martha Webber and Roberta Lingerfelt, both of Siloam Springs, and Sharon Golaway of Sulfer; 41 grandchildren; 58 great-
grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at First Assembly of God Church with Pastor Michael Goldsmith officiating. Private burial will be Tuesday in Oak Hill Cemetery under the direction of Backstrom-Pyeatte Funeral Home of Siloam Springs.
Visitation will be from 2 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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