JOHN BENGE SR.

John Kenneth Benge Sr., 86, widower of Mary Helen Montgomery Benge, died Thursday, April 28, 2016, at his home. 

Born July 28, 1929, in Lincoln County, he was the son of the late Henry Clayton and Sally Marie Raines Benge. 

He was a U.S. Army veteran, a retired insurance agent, a farmer and a member of the Bethel Baptist Church.