TITLE:  Benton Harvey

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier, July 14, 2001

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, July 2001

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HARVEY, B. Benton Ben Harvey was born in South Bend, Indiana, September
, 18, 1924. He attended Central High School, South Bend, Indiana, 
class of 1942. He graduated from Purdue University in 1945 with a 
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. In 1945 he was captain 
of the Purdue University track team competing in the 60, 100 and 220 
yard dash. Ben Harvey joined the Navy Reserve Program at Purdue and 
served in the United States Navy during World War II.He had a 25 year 
career with The Bendix Corporation, a major auto supplier and was 
general manager of Fuel Devices in Detroit during the last six years 
of his Bendix career. After early retirement from Bendix he spent 12 
years wit the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (DEGC), a 
private/non-profit exonomic development organization, assisting small 
and medium sized firms in the city. After retiring from the DEGC he 
managed businesses in trust for the National Bank of Detroit. In 1998, 
Ben Harvey moved with his wife to Charleston in November 1998 where he 
immediately felt welcomed. He joined the Rascals II, a senior golfing 
group, and served on the Board of Directors of the Charleston Symphony 
Orchestra. In these groups he found himself surrounded by new friends 
and an old friend from this Purdue fraternity. Ben Harvey died 
peacefully at home on July 12, 2001 from complications of cancer. He 
leaves his wife, Barbara Tilley, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of 
Biometry and Epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina; 
his son Bill, Secretary/Treasurer of the Communications Workers of 
America of Oakland, California; his daughter, Ann Woodman of Beverly 
Hills, Michigan, an owner of the Knitting Room in Birmingham, Michigan;
and three grandchildren, Emily McClaren and Geoff and Peter Woodman. 
He also leaves two stepsons, Steven and Jeffery Campbell of Maryland.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday, July 15, 2001 at the Second 
Presbyterian Church, 342 Meeting St., at 3 o'clock. Friends may call 
at J. HENRY STUHR, INC., DOWNTOWN CHAPEL Saturday evening between five 
and seven o'clock. Interment will take place on July 17, 2001 at 2 
o'clock in St. Joseph's Valley Memorial Park, Granger, Indiana. Funeral
services will also be held in Michigan in Birmingham Unitarian Church. 
Please send memorials to the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, 14 George 
Street, Charleston, SC 29401. Comments for this family can be posted on
the Internet at http://www.cruxdev.com/ben.asp. (The Post and Courier 
July 14, 2001)

HARVEY, B. Benton The relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Harvey 
are invited to attend the funeral services of the former on Sunday, 
July 15, 2001, at the Second Presbyterian Church, 342 Meeting St., at 
3 o'clock.Interment will take place on July 17, 2001 at 2 o'clock in 
St. Joseph's Valley Memorial Park, Granger, Indiana.Please send 
memorials to the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, 14 George Street, 
Charleston, SC 29401. Comments for this family can be posted on the 
Internet at http://www.cruxdev.com/ben.asp. Arrangements by J. HENRY 
STUHR, INC., DOWNTOWN CHAPEL. (The Post and Courier July 15, 2001)

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