- Mary Esther Mabee, 84, formerly of 122 Harrison Ave., died at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, 2005, at Miller's Merry Manor East.
She was born May 16, 1921, in Huntington County to Ira and Bessie (Davis) Snowberger. She married William E. Benson in 1942 and he died in 1963. She then married William E. Mabee in February of 1967 and he died Feb. 10, 1997. She was a member of the Wabash American Legion Auxiliary.
Survivors include a daughter, Sharyle (Bill) Hapner, Wabash; three sons, James M. (Deloris) Benson, Urbana, Darrell (Deb) Benson, Wabash, and William Buddy Mabee, Wabash; two sisters, Ruby Mead, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Helen Burke, Wabash; a brother, Ralph (Leona) Snowberger, St. George, Kan.; four granddaughters, Shelly (Carl) Bayliss, Wabash, Kelly (James) Hippensteel, Huntington, Wendy (Ron) Frazier, Wabash, and Tammy (Don) King, Wabash; four grandsons, William (Bev) Hapner, Murfreesboro, Tenn., Scott (Christy) Hapner, Murfreesboro, Tenn., Darren Benson, Wabash, and Willie (Shelly) Mabee, Winona Lake; and 14 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one son, William Benson, who died in 1980, five brothers and two sisters.
Funeral services will be at Grandstaff-Hentgen Manchester Avenue Chapel at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 24. #Burial will be in Falls Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 23.
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