Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1917 — MT. AYR LADY DIED FRIDAY [ARTICLE]

MT. AYR LADY DIED FRIDAY

Mrs. Otto Bengston Passes Away After Long Hlness. Mrs. Otto Bengston of Mt. Ayr, who had been in poor health for several months, died yesterday forenoon at 9:30. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon and burial made at North Star cemetery. Mrs. Bengston was born April 18, 1863, and had lived practically her whole life in the vicinty qf Mt. Ayr. Besides her husband she is survived by her aged mother, Mary Jane Rimer; three children, Yfrs. Earl Leek of southwest of Rensselaer, Charles Bengston of Foresman and Mrs. David Book of Mt. Ayr. She is also survived by three brothers and two sisters, Edward Brown of Wheatfield, Charles Brown of Morocco and Francis, Lizzie and Ella Brown of Mt. Ayr.