The Benisek Line

The family's saved records, complete and verbatim

Albuquerque 1966 · Cleveland 1971

The Family Timeline

The Benisek chapters will grow as the archive is researched.

The death notice of Brother James Benisek · complete and verbatim

The Plain Dealer, October 8, 1971 — transcription record

12C THE PLAIN DEALER FRIDAY, OCT. 8, 1971

The notice, enlarged from the page scan
The notice, enlarged from the page scan

BENISEK Brother James Benisek of the Marinist Brothers, son of Elizabeth and John (both deceased), brother of Mrs. Ann Recka, Mrs. Bee Smith, John of Albuquerque, Jo- seph, and the following deceased: Mary Ptacek, Josephine Hrouda and Lillian Matejka. Funeral Saturday 9 a.m., at The University of Dayton Chapel.

The whole saved page — The Plain Dealer, October 8, 1971
The whole saved page — The Plain Dealer, October 8, 1971

The family compiler’s yearbook find, her two typed lines and the printed caption complete and verbatim

Peggy Benisek — Valley High School, 1966

Margaret (Peggy) Benisek, age 16

Junior picture in 1966 year book, high school in Albuquerque New Mexico

First row (l-r): Cindy Kinsey, Louise Ostreicher, Emily Casias, Elaine Enarson, Sandy Hatton, Cathy Fiala, Becky Soos and Lou Ann Vidal. Second row: VanAnn Moore, Celeste Lewis, Cathy Hutchison, Mary Anderson, Lynn Sands, Darla Duke, Diana Stewart, Alyce Corley, Louella Houston. Third row: Shirley Poper, Jim Neely, Ed Tsytee, Mike Cordova, Flavio . Maestas, Roman Romero, Robert Gutierrez, Mark Romero, Beth Jones. Fourth row: Peggy Beniseck, Pete Weirich, Rick Rivera, Fred Johnson, Stanley Koppel, George Shortle, Jerry Olona, Clayton DeHart and Elise Dahlquist.

Concert Choir

The 1966 SAGA yearbook cover, gilt-blocked with a crest and large letter V
The yearbook itself — 1966 · SAGA, Valley High School, Albuquerque
A zoomed page of 1966 class portraits from the Ancestry.com viewer
The junior-picture page, as the compiler saved it zoomed — no printed names fall inside the crop
The Valley High School Concert Choir group photograph, about fifty students on staging
The Concert Choir — the printed caption puts Peggy Beniseck in the fourth row
Brother James Benisek, S.M. · d. 1971
UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON CHAPEL