This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BENSON, JOHNSON, CARLSON, WALTER, SUNDERLIN Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/11761 Message Board Post: 5/30/2001 - Virginia L. Johnson Benson, 89, formerly of 369 Howard Ave., W.E., Jamestown, died Wednesday (May 30, 2001) at 2483 Turnpike Road, Hornell, N.Y., the home of her son. A Jamestown-area resident since 1917, she was born Oct. 16, 1911, in Ravenna, Ohio, a daughter of Charles Louis and Nellie Genevieve Carlson Walter. She was a 1928 graduate of Jamestown High School and a 1929 graduate of Jamestown Business College. Surviving are a son, Ralph A. Johnson of Hornell, with whom she made her home; six grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Alvin T. Johnson, whom she married Aug. 16, 1940, and who died April 6, 1986; her second husband, Raymond C. Benson, who died May 22, 1998; and a son, William C. Sunderlin, who died in 1967. Burial will be in the Sunset Hill Cemetery.