The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-25
Benton ity Pioneer ~ i'd
Succumbs at Seattle

BENTON CTTY--Mrs. A. L. Hen.
son, ~, for thirty years a Benton
City resident, died of" a heart at
tack Monday afternoon in Seattle
at the home of Mrs. Minnie Reid
mother of Mrs. Roy Henson, where
she had been taken ten days ago for
medical treatment of a heart all
ment. Her two sons, j.. o. Henson
OF Colfax and Roy of Benton CITY
left Monday evening. for, Seattle to
make the funeral arrangements. A.
I. Henson, Mrs. Roy Henson and
Roy went over Tuesday. 5:?s 81
+ Funeral services were held wed
nesday afternoon in Seattle at the
Mittelstadt chapel and burial was
ina Seattle cemetery.
Martha Elizabeth Henson was
born September II, 1868 in Missouri.
She was married in April in 1889 to
A. L. Henson. They resided i'm
Kansas City, Mo. several years be-
fore coming to Benton City in 1910
and purchasing a track of sage
brush ON Benton Highlands, which
they cleared and developed into a
fine ranch and have made it their
home for 80 years.
Mrs. Henson was a charter mem
Der of the Highland Ladies' Club,
the Improvement Club and the XII
ona-Benton grange. She has been
local Red Cross representative for
several years.
She is survived by her widower,
two sons, Roy of Benton City and
James of Colfax,y three grandchiId-
rem, Roy jr. of Benton City, Ilene |
and Jean of Seattle, a brother in
Pacific, Mo-, and half sister in
Oklahoma.
Mrs. Lester Stump (Olive Clay
ton) Of Yakima is visiting at the
home OF her father, Leonard Clay
ton, while Stump is employed with
a road construction company at AL
bany, Oregon.
Mr.. and Mrs. ,Pard Marlin and
son, Jack, returned Sunday from a
several days fishing trip at Fish
Lake in Stevens pass. ~
AT the meeting of the Community !
Club Monday evening Wayne HAM
ION gave a report on Evergreen Boys |
State at Camp Murray he attended
n June. 49,. '-...'.'st>>', r. Ia
Don Hanson and Jay Carroll are
Employed at the Hershey Packing |
Corporation warehouse in White J;
Bluffs. They started work We'd J
lesday and drive to work each day.
Wayne Stone returned Sunday to
lis work at the Rattlesnake gas E
ield from a weeks vacation trip to Ii
spokane and other Eastern Wash
ngton points. 49,. 1t
Henry Bachler left Monday night
or his home at Whitefish, Montana II
liter a five weeks visit with his s
iece, Mrs. Erwin Knowles. Bach
er had planned to stay until after !
he p rosser States Day celebration /
ut shortened his visit when he re-
eived word two nieces from the a
Iddlewest that he had not seen E
Or Is years were coming to White \
lsh to visit Bachler's daughter. Ia
MIR. and Mrs. N p. Peterson of q
'remerton came Monday to spend a
he week here attending property
interests. e. r
During the past few years the b
as supply from the Benton City v
elds has been decreasing to the t
ONT where the Northwest Natural
ias Co. has been obliged to install $
'utane plants in order to insure an v
dequate supply for the upper Yak t
ma valley towns. ':~:':-,. =" IN
The Rev. and Mrs. Elmer Schwenk /,
nd son, Milton, of Finley were a
Wednesday night guests of Mrs. /,
lice Hartman continuing Thursday +
, ProsSer to attend the Field Day
icnic at the Experiment station a
nd to visit Mrs. Sclrwenk's sister, [
irs. Wilbert Hahn. They returned e
riday to their home. b