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Rhoda Benjamin
A memorial service was held Sunday, Sept. 14, at the Salisbury (Vt.) Congregational Church, for Rhoda Curran Benjamin of Salisbury, the mother of a Madison resident, who died Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, at Porter Hospital in Middlebury, Vt. She was 79.
Born Dec. 1, 1923, the daughter of the late Hazel Bellis Curran and Edward Curran, Mrs. Benjamin lived in Middlebury from 1946 to 1973, when she moved to Salisbury.
Mrs. Benjamin formerly taught in the Addison and Middlebury school systems in Vermont and was the librarian at the Mary Hogan School in Middlebury.
She was a member of the Retired Teachers Organization.
A graduate of Arlington (Vt.) High School and Castleton (Vt.) State College, she received a degree in library science from the University of Vermont, Burlington.
She married James C. Benjamin in 1946 and took up residence in Middlebury that year. The couple moved in 1973 to Salisbury, where they restored an early 1800s home.
Her interests and talents included quilting, in which she was both an award-winner and a judge, and decorative painting and music.
Mrs. Benjamin was an active member of the Salisbury Congregational Church, where she played the piano for both Sunday services and weddings.
She also was a member of the Salisbury Historical Society.
Her husband died in 2002.
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