This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#267902) Benjamin Westbrook <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=267902> AUTHOR: Mari Nielsen - DATE: 2/25/2010 at 20:18:38 Surnames: WESTBROOK,WAGNER,LAESER,BAILEY,BERKLEY,BUTCHER BENJAMIN WESTBROOK Wapello – Benjamin Harrison Westbrook, 77, of rural Wapello, died Sunday, Oct. 17, 1993, at Muscatine General Hospital. Services are at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home with the Rev. Bill Young officiating. Burial is at Wagner Cemetery near Letts. Family will meet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. A memorial has been established to the First Presbyterian Church in Wapello and the Wapello Rescue Unit. He was born Feb. 10, 1916, at Grandview to Benjamin H. and Mable Wagner Westbrook. He married Gertrude Laeser on Nov. 18, 1944. Mr. Westbrook was a graduate of the Grandview High School and had farmed in the Wapello area since 1954. He was a 50-year member of the B.P.O. Elks Lodge No. 304 of Muscatine. He had served on Louisa County A.S.C.S. committees and was a member of the Louisa County Farm Bureau. Survivors include his wife; his mother, Mable Westbrook of Muscatine; one daughter, Jeri Bailey of Wapello; two grandchildren, Erin and Daniel Bailey; two sisters, Jeanetta Berkley of Des Moines and Jessie Lee Butcher of Bettendorf; five brothers, Hartley of Ames, Frederick of Fairfield, Richard of Ankeny, Robert of Moline, Ill. and Donald of California. He was preceded in death by his father. Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of October 17, 1993