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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning 1908 - 1987

Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning of 4150 Soquel Dr, in Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California United States was born on February 2, 1908 at Itchen Bridge, in Southampton, Southampton County, England United Kingdom to William Tasker and Mary Ann (Jones) Tasker. Eileen Benning had siblings Willie Tasker and Ethel Allen. She married George Benning on September 29, 1928 in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington United States, and they were married until George's death on August 23, 1946. They had a child Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch. She would also marry Charles Henry 'Heinie' Barrett Sr. in 1948, and they were married until Charles' death on January 15, 1950. She and Dewey David D'Albert married on April 14, 1952 in San Francisco, California United States, and they were married until Dewey's death on July 9, 1961 in Soquel, Santa Cruz County United States. Eileen Benning died at age 78 years old on January 28, 1987 at Santa Clara County Medical Center S Bascom Ave, in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California United States, and was buried in February 1987 Ashes scattered at sea in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County.

Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning
Connie, Eileen Constance D'Albert (Tasker), Eileen Constance Barrett (Tasker)
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4150 Soquel Dr, in Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California 95073, United States
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February 2, 1908
Itchen Bridge, in Southampton, Southampton County, England, United Kingdom
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January 28, 1987
Santa Clara County Medical Center S Bascom Ave, in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95128, United States
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  • Introduction

    Eileen Constance "Connie" (Tasker) Benning's father was William Tasker (1879 - 1933) and her mother was Mary Ann (Jones) Tasker (1882 - 1956). She had siblings Willie Tasker (1906 - 1932) and Ethel Allen (born 1909). My great-grandmother, or "GG" as I called her, was a strong proper Welsh woman. She outlived each of her 3 husbands and just could not take another spouse dying on her. She worked hard in her later years, moving to Seward Alaska as a nurse (she was in Seward during the great quake on March 27, 1964 and her family didn't know if she had survived for 3 days) and then returned to California's Bay Area, working at a hospital in Redwood City. GG was a proper Welsh woman until the day she died. From her granddaughter Kathy: Grandma was married 3 times - her first husband was our biological grandfather - and between 1946 and 1961, each of her 3 husbands died. Later in life, she told me that she had so much heartbreak during that time that she didn't want to marry again and have another husband die. But as she got older, she was lonely and wished that she had married again. Grandma was an active person and always up for an adventure. In her 50s, she moved to Seward Alaska (on her own, knowing no one) and was there for the big Alaska quake. She was working at Seward Hospital and had a funny story about the quake: When it begin, she stood in the doorway of a patient's room - an elderly man. After they both survived the quake, the elderly patient told everyone who would listen that she had "saved his life by holding up the room." After Seward, she moved to Valdez (also devastated by the quake) for a year. Grandma returned to the San Francisco Bay Area (where we were living) and worked at Sequoia Hospital. After she retired from Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California, she went to work as a companion for an elderly woman in Arizona. The woman was very wealthy, so they split the year between her home in Scottsdale and her other home in Michigan. But the work was physically difficult, so Grandma retired and returned to the Bay Area where she bought a small mobile home in Aptos, near Santa Cruz California. It had been a life-long dream of hers to live in Australia, but that dream was never realized. While she lived in Aptos, however, she became an active member of AA, a daily walker, a devoted yoga practitioner, and took lessons in the Welsh language. Even in her 70s, she couldn't sit still!
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    1908

    Birthday

    February 2, 1908
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    Itchen Bridge, in Southampton, Southampton County, England United Kingdom
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  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Connie was Caucasian, of Welsh heritage. Although she was born in the south of England, both of her parents were Welsh. She lived most of her life in the Pacific Coast of the United States, but very definitely embodied what she considered to be a proper Welsh woman's lifestyle.

  • Nationality & Locations

    Eileen Constance 'Connie' Tasker was born in Itchen, England (near Southampton) but she had Welsh heritage. When Connie was 5 years old, July 23, 1913, her family arrived to Ellis Island, NY, then moved on to settle in Lead, South Dakota. In 1918, Connie's family moved to West Seattle, Washington, where she attended local schools and graduated from West Seattle High School. Connie lived the majority of her life between Washington state, California, and Alaska. She was naturalized as a US citizen on July 24, 1919 in Seattle, WA

  • Early Life & Education

    Connie attended grade school in Lead, South Dakota before moving to Washington state when she was 10 years old. She graduated from West Seattle High School.

  • Religious Beliefs

    Being born and raised in her childhood in England, Connie's family were members of the Church of England. She attended the Episcopalian church when they moved to the United States and attended until her death.

  • Military Service

    Connie was never in the military. Her first husband had been in the Navy during World War I.

  • Professional Career

    Connie was a nursing assistant in her 40's at Morningside Manor, a nursing home. Previously, she was a waitress at her 3rd husband's family resort - Blue Lake Lodge - in Northern California. After being a nursing assistant, she moved to Seward, Alaska, and become a nursing assistant at Seward Hospital. About a year after the big quake in the 1960s, she moved from Seward to Valdez, where she continued working in the nursing field. Before leaving Alaska, Connie was working as a nurse for a bush pilot, flying out into the areas where there was little to no medical facilities. She loved it, as it suited her love of travel and adventure. Connie moved to Redwood City, California, in 1968, working as an LVN at Sequoia Hospital. After retiring from Sequoia, Connie became a private nurse for a wealthy woman who wintered in Mesa, Arizona, and had a permanent home in Michigan. She retired to Soquel, California, near Santa Cruz, in her late 60s.

  • Personal Life & Family

    Connie was an Eastern Star and a lifelong member of the Elks Lodge. She was married 3 times - each husband died, and she remarried. Connie married first, George Lawrence Benning, September 29, 1928, in Vancouver, WA The marriage produced one daughter, Marian Joyce Benning. George passed away in August 1946. Connie married Charles Henry 'Heine' Barrett July 22, 1948 in Kootneai Co., Idaho. Heine passed away January 15, 1950 in Santa Cruz, CA Lastly, Connie married Dewey David D'Albert April 14, 1952 in San Francisco, CA. Dewey passed away July 9, 1961 in Lake County, CA. Connie loved golf, reading, traveling and keeping connected with her life-long friends. As a young child, Connie had always wanted to see the Andes. In 1951, she fulfilled that dream. On a voyage to Cuba and South America, Connie departed the ship and flew home-over the Andes! After retirement, Connie applied for immigration to work in either Australia or the Virgin Islands, but was denied due to her 'age'. When Connie died, she was survived by two granddaughters and one great-grandson, who she adored.
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    1987

    Death

    January 28, 1987
    Death date
    breast cancer (Breast cancer - metastases)
    Cause of death
    Santa Clara County Medical Center S Bascom Ave, in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California 95128, United States
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    1987

    Gravesite & Burial

    February 1987
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    Ashes scattered at sea in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California United States
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  • Obituary

    d'Albert - In San Jose, California on January 28, 1987. Constance d'Albert. Loving mother of Joyce Vandever of San Jose, CA; beloved sister of Ethel Allen of Idaho Falls, Idaho; cherished grandmother of Kathleen Pinna of San Jose, CA and Pamela Kroetch-Jacobs of Aptos, CA. Dear grandmother of Daniel Pinna of San Jose, CA. Native of South Hampton, England, aged 78 years. Life member of Elks Lodge in Bremerton, Washington. Private family services were held with private inurnment under the direction of Lima Family-Erickson Mortuary, San Jose, CA. Memorial contributions may be made to The American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 26007, San Jose, CA 95159. - Funeral announcement that appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel in Santa Cruz California on Thursday January 29th in 1987.
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Tasker family picnic
Mj Benning
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01/01/2001
Tasker family picnic
William Tasker and teenage children. William leaning on a tall tree stump - children sitting on top.
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Ethel Allen
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Ethel Allen
Ethel (far right in photo) wither her siblings Eileen 'Connie' Tasker and Willie Tasker
Date & Place: in South Dakota United States
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Connie D'Albert, Daniel Pinna, Joyce Kroetch
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Connie D'Albert, Daniel Pinna, Joyce Kroetch
Little Daniel Pinna with his great-grandmother Connie Tasker D'albert (left) and his grandmother, Joyce Benning Kroetch (on right).
Date & Place: in San Jose, California USA
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10/11/2020
Happy Birthday, AncientFaces' mom and grandmom! Joyce Benning 10/11/1930 - 9/10/2017., here with her mother and her grandson, AncientFaces founder Daniel Pinna. You are loved.
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10/22/2011
This is officially one of my favorite young Daniel photos :)
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Eileen Constance 'Connie' Tasker D'Albert
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Eileen Constance 'Connie' Tasker D'Albert
A photo of our grandmother, Eileen Constance 'Connie' Tasker D'Albert, daughter of William Tasker and Mary Ann Jones. Wife of George Benning, Heine Barrett and Dewey D'Albert...
Date & Place: in San Jose, California USA
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Photo of Daniel Pinna Daniel Pinna
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10/02/2024
This is how I remember GG. It must have been only a handful of years before her death in 1987. I remember that couch and even that blanket. I wonder who made it...
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Lloyd Harold Benning
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Lloyd Harold Benning
Left to right: Connie Tasker Benning, Evalyn Benning, Lloyd Benning, unknown, Genette Benning, Lucille Benning, unknown man
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Nancy Allen & Connie Tasker
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Nancy Allen & Connie Tasker
Connie Tasker Benning and her niece Nancy Allen.
Date & Place: in Idaho Falls, Idaho USA
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Photo of Kathy Pinna Kathy Pinna
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04/16/2024
My grandmother and her niece- my cousin.
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Mary Ann Tasker, Heine & Connie Barrett, Long Beach, CA
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03/03/2006
Mary Ann Tasker, Heine & Connie Barrett, Long Beach, CA
Mary Ann Tasker with her son-in-law Heine Barrett and daughter Connie Tasker Barrett...goofing off in Long Beach, CA
Date & Place: in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California United States
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Dewey David D'Albert
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Dewey David D'Albert
Dewey (on left) with wife Connie Tasker Benning, grandchildren Kathy and Pam Kroetch, and Nellie and Shirley Abbott, great-grandparents of Kathy and Pam. Willow Glen, San Jose, CA 1953/54
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Photo of Daniel Pinna Daniel Pinna
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03/05/2024
Remembering GG on 1/28/2021
Kathleen Rae (Kroetch) Pinna reminded me today that you died on this day when I was six years old. Now age 40, I still remember very well the car ride home from the YWCA when mom told me that you had died. I believe mom started with "I have something to tell/share with you..." and I interrupted her and said "GG died".

That was my first experience with death. I seem to recall being okay with it, which could be viewed as unusual as we had such a wonderful relationship. The few strongest memories are likely not the two you would chose for me to remember. One is the time you spilled coffee on my head. Okay, ok, it was hot water from the stove but you were making it for coffee. Two is when I fell behind during one of our usual walks around the neighborhood. It was unusual that I was slow, and you realized I had reason since my shoes were on backwards :c)

Note from Kathleen Pinna: The car ride home was from Kindergarten at St. Francis Cabrini. Otherwise, you're right - you weren't upset when you realized GG was dead. But you were very close to her - from the time you were an infant, she would babysit you when I was working odd hours at the emergency room. It's funny that you remember the walk - you were perhaps 14 months old.
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03/05/2024
Celebrating your Birthdays on February 2nd
Today I found out while talking with Kathleen Rae (Kroetch) Pinna that on your birthday you'd send cards to other people that you met that shared your same birthday. You had remarked that it was rare to ever meet someone with the same birthday and that this was your way of celebrating. Because of this you sent my uncle John a birthday card every year. My friend Elizabeth Mitchell's birthday is today. The first birthday after her passing away.
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Eileen Tasker's Family Tree & Friends

Marriage

George Benning

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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning

September 29, 1928
Marriage date
Vancouver, Clark County, Washington United States
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George's Death
Cause of Separation
August 23, 1946
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George was Eileen's first husband. She lost three husbands back to back.
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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning
Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning Feb 2, 1908 - Jan 28, 1987
George Benning
George Benning Apr 21, 1897 - Aug 23, 1946
Child
Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch
Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch Oct 11, 1930 - Sep 10, 2017
Marriage

Charles Henry 'Heinie' Barrett Sr.

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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning

1948
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Charles's Death
Cause of Separation
January 15, 1950
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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning Feb 2, 1908 - Jan 28, 1987
Charles Henry 'Heinie' Barrett Sr.
Charles Henry 'Heinie' Barrett Sr. Jun 6, 1906 - Jan 15, 1950
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Dewey David D'Albert

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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning

April 14, 1952
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San Francisco, CA United States
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Dewey's Death
Cause of Separation
July 9, 1961
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Soquel, Santa Cruz County, CA United States
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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning Feb 2, 1908 - Jan 28, 1987
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Dewey David D'Albert Apr 8, 1898 - Jul 9, 1961
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Tasker, Leslie (Apr 7, 1919 - Mar 31, 1991) Tasker, Edith (Jun 6, 1921 - Dec 12, 2008) Tasker, Paul (Jun 10, 1922 - Jan 18, 2006) Tasker, Frances (Sep 11, 1922 - May 5, 1991) Tasker, John (May 31, 1916 - May 14, 1989) Tasker, Violet (Nov 9, 1900 - Apr 1974) Tasker, Gladys (Mar 11, 1902 - Dec 1970) Tasker, Stanley (Aug 6, 1901 - Oct 1976) Tasker, Cecil (Oct 24, 1935 - Jun 1985) Tasker, Margaret (Dec 17, 1889 - Jan 1980)
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