Sylva B. Carter

1926 - 1996  (70 years)

• Name	Sylva B. Carter  [1, 2]
  Birth	27 Mar 1926	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	13 Jul 1996	Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio   [2]
  Burial	Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [3]
  Notes	The SSDI instead shows her birthdate as May 28, 1926. Her obituary is indexed on Cleveland Public Library's index as having been published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 19, 1996, Page 9, Section B. It was also noted that she was a registered nurse. The full obituary was not available online, however.
  Person ID	I858	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Family	William "Bill" Glen Benkelman,   b. 24 Nov 1923, Lakewood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio d. 28 Oct 1999, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	27 Jun 1953	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada   [1, 4]
  	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.
  Family ID	F628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2008

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 27 Mar 1926 - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Marriage - 27 Jun 1953 - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Death - 13 Jul 1996 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Burial - - Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Headstones

  Benkelman, Sylva E.

  
  

• Sources

  [S337] Benkelman, Hilda Jane Stickley THE MEMOIRS OF JOHN A. BENKELMAN (Privately Published, 1966). [S333] Ancestry.com - U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current [database online], (Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence.). [S722] Elkland (Twp, Tuscola Co, MI) Cemetery Records ; http://elkland.rawson.lib.mi.us/. [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).