Laura Jacobson

Bennett R Lewis of Marshfield, Wood County, WI was born on August 18, 1901 in Rhinelander, Oneida County, and died at age 86 years old on December 19, 1987.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Harold Crosby.

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Connie Crosby Miller was born to Helen Lewis Crosby and Harold Crosby, and has siblings Bennett Crosby and Charles Crosby. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Connie Crosby Miller.

Helen Lewis Crosby was one of four children born to Edith Alban Lewis and Bennett R. Lewis of Rhinelander, WI. She was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Helen loved the arts and literature. Helen maintained a loving relationship with her niece, Mary Lewis Bouffiou, of McFarland, WI and with Mary's children. She was hospitable to the family and supportive of the artistic endeavors of Mary's children, especially those in theater and forensics. She lived to hold her first grand-grandniece, Suzanne, daughter of Laura Bouffiou Jacobson and husband Ron. Her grand-nieces were treated to a most elegant reading of PETER RABBIT every Christmas after dinner in her home. She is fondly remembered by all of Mary's children.

Bennett enjoyed his work with plants at the UW greenhouse. He was disabled as a child and lived in Madison, WI all his life. His mother, Helen Crosby, a widow, lived in Nakoma on Mohawk Trail. She was active among the University Alumnae, enjoyed theater, reading, and an active social life. She died after many years at Attic Angels. Bennett loved big family dinners at his cousin's (Mary Lewis Bouffiou) home on Thanksgiving and Christmas. He always brought paint-by-number oils as a gift to his cousin, who rewarded him with homemade fudge and all the turkey and mashed potatoes he could eat...which was a lot! Bennett lived for decades in an apartment on Mifflin Street in Madison. After the death of his cousin Mary, the family lost touch with him, though some searched in later years. He was a kind and simple man who loved painting and happily shared his treasures.