Obituary - Mount Pulaski Times-News, 19 December 1957 MRS. BEN F. SCROGGIN DIED AT OAK, NEB.; BORN HERE IN 1866 Funeral services for Mrs. Benjamin F. Scroggin of Oak, Nebr., were held in the family home at 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2, conducted by Rev. E. L. Kraus. Burial was made in the Evergreen Cemetery in Superior, Nebr. Mrs. Scroggin suffered a broken hip on Thanksgiving Day, and was removed to the Superior Hospital, where she underwent surgery by a Lincoln (Nebr.) specialist on Friday evening. She died in the Broadstone Memorial Hospital in Superior on Saturday, Nov. 30, 1957, aged 91 years, 10 months, and 13 days. Arthilda Gasaway was born Jan. 17, 1866 on a farm southeast of Mount Pulaski, Ill. She was married to Benjamin F. Scroggin of Mount Pulaski on March 1, 1887. They migrated immediately to Nebraska, and settled on a farm near Oak. They moved into Oak in 1902, where Mr. Scroggin had organized the Scroggin & Company Bank in 1898, of which Mrs. Scroggin served as president since the death of her husband Jan. 20, 1940. She was a member of the Christian Church. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. W. A. Schumacher, of Summitt, N. J.; two sons, Grover G. Scroggin, of Lakewood, Colo., and John L. Scroggin, of Oak, Nebr.; five grandchildren, Mrs. Harold Crouch of Edgar, Nebr.; Leonard K. and Bruce A. Scroggin of Oak; Robert K. Schumacher of Tulsa, Okla.; and Richard W. Schumacher of Arlington, Va. Mention of the death of Mrs. Scroggin was made in the Times-News issue of Dec. 5. She was a sister-in-law of Thomas A. Scroggin, Mount Pulaski, and Mrs. Edna Anderson, of Lincoln.