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The Times Herald Record
Saturday, November 26, 1983
     MIDDLETOWN -- Grace "Bessie" VanBenschoten of Park Manor, Dunning Road, Middletown, and a lifelong area resident, died Friday, Nov. 25, in Park Manor, Middletown, after a long illness.  She was 89.
     The daughter of the late Nial and Emma Burpre Jacobs, she was born March 24, 1894, in Crystal Run, Town of Wallkill.  The widow of Frank VanBenschoten, she was a member of Webb Horton Presbyterian Church, Middletown.
     Survivors include two daughters: Gladys Souter of Middletown, and Frances Harris of Jacksonville, Ariz.; a son, Earl VanBenschoten of Albuquerque, N.M.; a brother, Irving Jacobs of New Mexico; two sisters: Mary Ellen Hoskins of Montgomery and Ruth Hinckley of Middletown, and several grandchildren.
     Friends may call from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Sunday at P.J. Reilly-Morse Funeral Home, 33 Railroad Ave., Middletown.
     Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at the funeral home.  The Rev. James MacNaughton Jr. will officiate.
     Burial will be in Wallkill Cemetery , Phillipsburg.