Marie Benson
12 July 1952 - 1 April 2005
Marie Elizabeth Benson was born in the USA, and first visited South Africa
in 1989. She came here to live the following year. Since then she met and
inspired (and was inspired by) many people from different communities. Most
recently, she served women in prison through
HeartWork. Marie developed
pulmonary fibrosis, an untreatable lung disease that involves scarring of
the lung tissue, but even being on an oxygen machine could not keep her
from visiting her friends in prison. She died quietly, in the company of
friends, on 1 April 2005, at the Houghton facility of the Hospice
Association of the Witwatersrand. Her funeral was held at St Catherine's
Church, Bramley, at 11:30am Thursday 7 April 2005, and was conducted by the
Rev. Lynda Wyngaard.
Copyright © 2005, Rodney Jones,
rtjones@global.co.za,
Randburg, South Africa
(Last updated on 7 April 2005)