OBITUARY - BENJAMIN R. ROSS, SR.

Submitted by: Leona Johnson, bell_crazy2000 -at- yahoo -dot- com

Source: "The Daily News", Longview, Cowlitz Co., Washington

Benjamin R. Ross Sr., 139 Kingsberry Rd., Kelso, died Sept 27, 1989, in a
Longview hospital. He was born July 21, 1908, in Morganton, N.C.  He had lived
in the Longview-Kelso area most of his life and had been a millworker for
Weyerhaeuser, retiring in 1963.

Survivors include his wife, Eltie, at home; three daughters, Betty Sitters of
Banning, Calif., Patricia Masterson of Kelso, and Carol Latham of Longview;
three sons, Daniel of Yuma, Ariz., Richard of Beaumont, Calif., and Benjamin Jr.
of El Cajon, Calif.; 20 grandchildren; two sisters, Mary Ross of Morganton,
N.C., and Bessie Ross of Virginia; and three brothers, Lewis and Woodrow of
North Carolina, and Charles of El Centro, Calif.

Funeral services will be held tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Steele Funeral Chapel,
with the Rev Paul Roper officiating. Interment will follow at the Longview
Memoriel Park.

Steele Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.