Benjamin Robert Weidner
1888 - 1965 (76 years)
Generation: 1
1. Benjamin Robert Weidner was born on 24 Mar 1888 in Claytonville, Iroquois County, Illinois; died on 14 Jan 1965 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana; was buried on 17 Jan 1965 in Yeoman Cemetery, Yeoman, Carroll County, Illinois. Notes:
Benjamin R. Weidner, 76, Delphi rural route 1, died Thursday at St Elizabeth Hospital, Lafayette, after a three-month illness.
Born March 24, 1888 in Illinois he was the son of Michael and Christina Wetland Weidner. He was married September 30, 1924, to Effie J. Boyce, who survives.
A Yeoman barber, be was formerly owner of Ben’s Tavern in Delphi He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, the Yeoman Methodist Church, the Masonic Lodge in Illinois and the Knights of Pythias He was a 32nd degree Mason. He was a member of the Delphi community for 25 years.
Surviving with the wife are a daughter, Mrs. Harry Clark, Freeport, N. Y.; two grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.
Services were held Sunday at the Cornell Funeral Home with Rev. William Moon officiating. Burial was made in Yeoman Cemetery.
Delphi Journal January 21, 1965
Contributed by Richard Lybrook
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139699484/benjamin-robert-weidnerBenjamin married Eva Effie Boyce on 30 Sep 1914 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Eva (daughter of John W. Boyce and Ida May Clifton) was born in 1891 in Illinois; died on 2 Sep 1973 in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey; was buried in Yeoman Cemetery, Yeoman, Carroll County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]