The Crockett Courier   Vol. LVIII, No. 5  Crockett, Texas   January 30, 1947

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ANNIE ELIZABETH BENEDICT PASSES AWAY
	Miss Annie Elizabeth Benedict passed away i a local hospital at 5:30 o'clock Tuesday morning, January 21.
      Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the First Methodist church.  religious
services were conducted by Rev. R. L. Lemons, the Methodist pastor.  Interment followed in the Weches cemetery.
Burial arrangements were in charge of Waller Funeral Home.  Pallbearers were Curtis Willis, C. W. Dobbs,
Thomas Moore, Troy Langham, Aubrey Shaw and Billy Sherman.
	Born November 17, 1921, the deceased was 25 years old.  She attended Glover High School and
Sam Houston State Teachers' College at Huntsville.  Recently she had been employed as a cashier at the army air
base at New Orleans.  Miss Benedict leaves the parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Benedict of Crockett; three brothers,
Osborne Benedict of Fort Wayne, Ind.; Albert and Harney Benedict of Crockett; two sisters, Virginia and Bettie
Benedict of Crockett; a grandmother, Mrs. O. Holtman of Port Arthur, and other relatives,  She had been a member
of the Baptist church since the age of ten.


The Crockett Democrat, Vol. VII, No. 11  Crockett, Houston County, Texas, Thursday, Jan.30, 1947
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ELIZABETH BENEDICT DIES JANUARY 21; RETES HELD THURSDAY
	Miss Annie Elizabeth Benedict, age 25, died at a local hospital on January 21 at 5:30 a.m., after a brief
illness.  Funeral services were held Thursday, January 23, at the First Methodist Church with Rev. R. L. Lemons
officiating.  Interment followed in the Weches cemetery.
	Survivors include her parents, , Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Benedict of Crockett; three brothers, Osborne Benedict
of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Albert and Harney Benedict of Crockett; two sisters, Virginia and Bettie Benedict of
Crockett; grandmother, Mrs. O. Holtman of Port Arthur, and several aunts and uncles.
	Pallbearers were Curtis Willis, W. C. Dobbs, Thomas Moore, Troy Langham, Aubrey Shaw and Billy Sherman.
Arrangements were by Waller Funeral Home.



Transcribed from microfilm at the John S. Wootters Crockett Public Library
by Bettie W. Sarver,    14 April 2008