Robert Parker Benz Sr.

Mr. Benz died Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2003, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was cremated.

He was born Nov. 21, 1919, in Nevada, Mo., the son of Leonard F. Benz and Martha Parker.

He married Betty L. Addington. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include two sons, Robert Jr., Baldwin, and Rex, Lawrence; a daughter, Jean Balke, Overland Park; a sister, Leondine Perkins, Concord, Wis.; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

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