Margaret Ellen Hortman Benckenstein
Born: October 5, 1896
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana
Died:  September 19, 1942
Place of Death: Vinton, Louisiana
Cemetery:  Goos Cemetery – Lake Charles

Parents:

Spouse:

  • Charles Height Benckenstein, Sr.
Married:
May 20, 1914 in New Orleans, Louisiana

Children:

  • Claude Leonard Benckenstein, Sr.
  • Charles Height Benckenstein, Jr.
  • Infant son Benckenstein

WIFE OF FORMER RESIDENT DIES

        Mrs. Margaret Hortman Benckenstein, 44, wife of a former Beaumonter, C. H. Benckenstein, died suddenly yesterday afternoon in Vinton, La.
Funeral services will be held at 4:30 o’clock this afternoon in the Vinton home with burial in the family plot in the Goosport cemetery in Lake Charles, La.
Pallbearers will be John H. Stanley, P. and Alfred G. Benckenstein, Fred Tieman, Dr. W. F. Brooks, Dr. R. G. Holcomb, James Ellis and Harry Lane. Mrs. Benckenstein was a native of New Orleans. Her husband is manager of the Vinton Petroleum company.
Surviving relatives are the husband; two sons, Claude and C. H. Benckenstein, Jr., and her mother, Mrs. Claude Hortman of New Orleans.