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Evaline Anna Benson

November 20, 1925 — August 26, 2024

Eldridge

Funeral services and Mass of Christian Burial for Evaline Benson, 98, of Eldridge, will be held at 10:30 am on Thursday, August 29, 2024, at St. John Vianney Catholic Church, Bettendorf. Visitation will be from 9:30 am until time of services at the church. Graveside services will be at 2 pm on Thursday in St. Paul Cemetery, Mineral Point, WI. Memorials may be made to St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church, Madison, WI.

 

Ms. Benson passed away Monday, August 26, 2024, at Grand Haven, Eldridge. Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home, Davenport, is assisting the family.

 

Evaline Anna Benson was born November 20, 1925, in Mineral Point, WI, a daughter of John and Dorothy (Jelliffe) Benson. After graduating from high school, she went to nursing school in Chicago.

 

In her earlier years she had been a nanny for the Ginn family in Cleveland, OH, and then Washington, DC. After the Ginn children were grown, she remained in the DC area, working as an insurance clerk/ specialist at the National Children’s Hospital.

 

Evaline was committed to her Catholic faith and loved reading and gaining knowledge it, along with her other many and varied interests. 

 

Survivors include her brothers Claire Benson of Wisconsin, Jim Benson of Minnesota, and many nieces and nephews.

 

She was preceded in death by her sister LuLu Belle Sweeney, and brothers Gerald, Gene, Marlin, Warren, John, Malvern “Mel”, and Marion Benson.

 

 

Online remembrances may be expressed at www.hmdfuneralhome.com. 

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Service Schedule

Past Services

Visitation

Thursday, August 29, 2024

9:30 - 10:30 am (Central time)

St. John Vianney Catholic Church

4097 18th St, Bettendorf, IA 52722

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Mass of Christian Burial

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Starts at 10:30 am (Central time)

St. John Vianney Catholic Church

4097 18th St, Bettendorf, IA 52722

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Burial

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Starts at 2:00 pm (Central time)

Saint Paul Cemetery

Mineral Point, WI 53565

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