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Betty I. Benes

Born: November 6, 1919     Brainard, Nebraska Died: November 1, 2009    Wahoo, Nebraska     Mass of Christian Burial: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10:00 AM St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church Wahoo, Nebraska Interment St. Francis Cemetery, Wahoo, Nebraska Visitation, Rosary & Scriptural Service: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Visitation ~ 4:00-8:00 PM Altar Rosary Society Rosary ~ 5:00 PM Scriptural Service ~ 7:00 PM Svoboda Funeral Home Memorials: St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church

Betty I. Benes died at the Saunders Medical Center in Wahoo. She was born  near Brainard, Nebraska  to Adolph and Mary (Tejral) Komenda. Betty attended a country school near Brainard. When WW II began, she worked at the Ordinance Plant near Mead, NE. On Oct. 6, 1945, she was united in marriage to George F. Benes at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Brainard by Monsignor Klein. They lived on a farm just south of Wahoo the first four years of marriage and then moved to a farm south of Ceresco, where they farmed. Betty worked raising chickens, gardening and canning and doing many farm chores and was known for baking angel food cakes. They later retired and moved to Wahoo. Betty was a parishioner at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, a member of Altar Rosary Society and St. Ludmilla Guild, and a former parishioner of St. Mary Catholic Church in Davey.

Betty is survived by sisters Dorothy (Howard) Novotny, Valparaiso, Nebraska, Agnes Benes, Wahoo, sisters in law, Glee Komenda, Brainard, Rose Komenda, Wahoo and Anna Bouc, Lincoln, Nebraska, many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by husband George F. Benes, sisters, Helen Tejral, Julia Kliment and Marie Skokan, brothers Adolph, Anton and Ted Komenda.