Doris Pauline Benesh

Doris Pauline Benesh was born on June 15, 1935 to Erwin and Alice Larson in Jewell, Iowa. She was the youngest of nine children. Her family moved to Hayward, MN in 1936 and Doris was baptized and confirmed at the Hayward Lutheran Church. Doris attended school in Hayward and Albert Lea Public Schools graduating in 1953. She graduated from Mankato State Teachers College with a teaching degree and taught elementary school for several years. Doris married Kenneth L. Benesh on June 23, 1957 in Hayward. The couple resided for 47 years in the Myrtle area where they worked together farming and co-owned Ken's Place in Myrtle. She spent several years as a care-giver for her mother-in-law, Mabel, and for her husband Ken. They moved to Austin and lived there for the past 3 years. Doris was a member of the Trondhjem Lutheran Church, and the Myrtle Historical Society. She enjoyed collecting Czech crystal, antiques, animals, reading, flowers, gardening, travels, and many fishing trips with Ken. Survivors include her husband, Kenneth; brothers, Daryl Pat Larson of Marshfield, WI and Erwin Ruth Larson of Austin, MN; sister Lucille Bill Stephenson of Aurora, CO; sister-in-law, Lucille Larson of Albert Lea; and a multitude of nieces, nephews, grandnieces and nephews, and great-grandnieces and nephews; special friends, Larry and Paula Goslee, Lance and Sharon Davis and family, Dick and Faye Madson and family, Wayne and Arcley Wahlers, Willie Gisch, Jeff Larson, Roger and Delores Saman, Michael Booher, Dee Soiney , Dan and Bonnie Belshan and Pastor John and Sharon Malm. Doris was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Everett Pearl Larson, Luverne Helen Larson, Jewel Evelyn Larson, and Curtis Larson; sister, Ethel Ben Fliss.