Family: Alvin Carlton Benkelman, Sr. / Olive Porter Scott (F625)

• Male Alvin Carlton Benkelman, Sr.

  
  

  Birth	8 May 1895	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Death	9 Sep 1987	Elk Creek, Grayson County, Virginia
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  Marriage	1 Jun 1944  [1, 2, 3]	Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland  [1, 2, 3]
  Other Spouse	Katherine Lynn Ayres | F624
  Marriage	5 Nov 1927	Sudley, Prince William County, Virginia
  Father	John Adam Benkelman | F617 Group Sheet
  Mother	Augusta Catherine Freidrika Krehl | F617 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Olive Porter Scott

  
  

  Birth	18 Dec 1907	Elk Creek, Grayson County, Virginia
  Death	23 Oct 1996	Elk Creek, Grayson County, Virginia
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  Father	Dr. William Worley Scott | F632 Group Sheet
  Mother	Alice May Delp | F632 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Living

  
  

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  Spouse	Living | F637
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• Notes

  Married: Cass City Chronicle Friday, July 7, 1944 Vol. 39, Number 15 A. C Benkelman and Olive Thompson Wed Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Scott announce the marriage of their daughter, Olive Scott Thompson, to Alvin C. Benkelman of Alexandria, Virginia, on June 1 at the manse in Rockville, Maryland, with Rev. H.K. Pasma officiating. The bride wore a dress of aqua with brown accessories and a corsage of orchids. Mrs. Benkelman is a graduate of Radford College and did special work in personnel at Purdue University and at the college of William and Mary. For many years she was social director at Radford College. During the past three years she has been guidance director at the Mount Vernon high school in Alexandria. Mr. Benkelman, the son of John A. Benkelman, of Cass City, has been employed as an engineer by the Michigan State Highway department and the Federal Highway department since his graduation from the University of Michigan. The couple are making their home in Arcturus-on-the-Potomoc, Virginia, after a nothern wedding trip. (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Spring 2007)

  
  

• 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/, Friday, July 7, 1944 (Reliability: 3).