This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beninghaus, Ables, Clawson, Hakala, Stoll, Luke, Zirfas, McClary, Canfield, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BMB.2ACE/1229 Message Board Post: Headlight Herald, Tillamook, OR Aug. 18, 2004 MARY ABELS BENINGHAUS Mary Abels Beninghaus was born May 29, 1910, and died Aug. 13, 2004 in Forest Grove. (OR) She is survived by her niece, Martha Clawson Hakala and husband Rudy Hakala and their family of Tillamook. Also surviving is Mary’s sister, Lorena Stoll of Maryville, (Clark Co.) Mo., and several nieces and nephews in the Maryville area. She was the daughter of Jacob and Martha Abels of Conception, Mo. Preceding her in death were her sisters, Regina Luke, Nora Zirfas, Elizabeth Clawson, Pauline McClary and brothers, Pete Abels and Leonard Abels. Mary’s husband, Carl Beninghaus, died Dec. 2, 1983, and her first husband, Harry Canfield, died May 26, 1954. She was raised on a farm at Conception, Mo., and spent most of her adult life in Long Beach, Calif. After failing health, she moved to Oregon in 1996 to be near family. Graveside services are pending at St. Columbia Cemetery in Conception, Mo. Arrangements are in the care of Waud’s Funeral Home. Headlight-Herald, Tillamook, OR Aug. 18, 2004