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Walter Edward Benjamin - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Baton Rouge Advocate, April 20, 2006

Walter Edward Benjamin, Retired from Gulf States Utilities Co. with 28 years of service, 
he died at noon Monday, April 17, 2006, at Flannery Oaks Guest House. He was a resident 
of Baton Rouge, a native of Tallulah and a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. 

Visitation at Rabenhorst Funeral Home East chapel, 11000 Florida Blvd., on Thursday, 
April 20, from 9 a.m. until religious service at 11 a.m., conducted by Dr. John Goodwin. 
Entombment at Resthaven Gardens of Memory Mausoleum. 

Survived by his daughter-in-law, Susan Muller Sevario of Greenwell Springs; sister, 
Elizabeth Guthrie Benjamin of Hattiesburg, Miss.; three stepgrandchildren, Laurie Venable, 
Drew Sevario and Becky Toler; seven stepgreat-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. 
He was preceded in death by his wife, Imogene Barnes Benjamin; daughter, Laurie Leigh 
Benjamin; stepson, William P. Sevario; parents, Percy O. Benjamin and Sadie Guthrie 
Benjamin; two brothers, 2nd Lt. Percy O. Benjamin Jr. and Lt. William P. Benjamin; and two 
sisters, Shirley Cockran and Cecilia Ann Moore.
 
Published in The Advocate from 4/19/2006 - 4/20/2006.