Family: William "Bill" Glen Benkelman / Sylva B. Carter (F628)

• Male William "Bill" Glen Benkelman

  
  

  Birth	24 Nov 1923	Lakewood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
  Death	28 Oct 1999	Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
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  Marriage	27 Jun 1953  [1, 2]	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada  [1, 2]
  Father	Glen Frederick Benkelman | F622 Group Sheet
  Mother	Maud McFadden | F622 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Sylva B. Carter

  
  

  Birth	27 Mar 1926	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  Death	13 Jul 1996	Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
  Burial		Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
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• Notes

  Married: According to the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST, Vol. 16, dated September 7, 1953, Sylva Carter and William Glen Benkelman were married in June in Winnipeg. He piloted his Cessna plane on the honeymoon trip of 5000 miles to Calgary, Banff, Vancouver, Seattle, Boise, Yellowstone, Cedar Rapids and Lakewood, Ohio.

  
  

• 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. 16, September 7, 1953. (Reliability: 3).