Family: Dorus William Benkelman / Hilda Jane Stickley (F623)

• Male Dorus William Benkelman

  
  

  Birth	6 Dec 1892	Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Death	14 Feb 1973	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Burial		Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Marriage	2 Nov 1943  [1, 2, 3]	Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan  [1, 2, 3]
  Father	John Adam Benkelman | F617 Group Sheet
  Mother	Augusta Catherine Freidrika Krehl | F617 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Hilda Jane Stickley

  
  

  Birth	21 May 1892	Brantford, Ontario, Canada
  Death	7 Apr 1960	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Burial		Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
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• Notes

  Married: Cass City Chronicle, Friday, November 12, 1943, Page 4 Miss Stickley and D. W. Benkelman Wed in Royal Oak Miss Hilda Jane Stickley and Dorus W. Benkelman were married Tuesday, Nov. 2, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Fisher, 2108 Roseland Avenue, Royal Oak . The ceremony was performed by the Rev. L. H. Pertner of Ferndale. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher and Mrs. Jean Doerr Rouse were the only attendants Mrs. Benkelman is a graduate of the Presbyterian Hospital, School of Nursing, Chicago, Ill, and has had post graduate work in orthopedic nurshing and physiotherapy at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. She had been actively engaged in orthopedic work in Oakland County for the past fifteen years. Mrs. Benkelman has been visiting occasionaly in Cass City for the past seven years. He has made many friends and is looking forward to making more in the future. Mr. Benkelman is the assistant cashier of the Pinney State Bank, a position he has held here for 22 years. Mr. and Mrs. Benkleman, together with John A. Benkelman, father of Dorus, will move to their residence on South Seegar Street in the near future. Mrs. Benkelman is spending the week at her summer home near Prescott, Michigan, and will be joined their by her husband and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kettlewell fo the week end. (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, November 2020) Dianne Herring, a descendant of Hilda Jane Stickley's brother Ernest Claud, shows Jane's parents as Thomas and Mary (Hill) Stickley, both born in England and residents of Prescott, Michigan. She suspects that the family Jane was visiting in Cass City were related to the Norman Fisher family and to Jean Doerr Rouse, the attendants at her wedding to Dorus. Bonnie Benkelman McLemore recognized the last name Doerr as common in Cass City.

  
  

• Sources

  [S337] Benkelman, Hilda Jane Stickley THE MEMOIRS OF JOHN A. BENKELMAN (Privately Published, 1966). [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Vol. 7, September 4, 1944 (Reliability: 3). [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, Thursday, February 22, 1973 (Reliability: 3).