Harvey Benson
Harvey “Harv” Alvin Benson passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home on May 1, 2021. He was born on June 17, 1936 in North Germany Township rural Sebeka, Minnesota at the family farm. His parents were the late Alvin and Marie (Grewing) Benson. He was the second oldest of nine children. He attended District #31 North Country School through 8th grade and went to Sebeka High School. Harvey was a member of the Minnesota Army National Guard.
When he was 17 he and his friend Leonard Thompson were adventurous and took a month long trip to Oregon where they worked in hay fields and picked strawberries for gas money which wasn’t enough and eventually had to ask for money from Leonard’s sister for gas money to return to Minnesota. That didn’t deter him from a future trip a couple of years later with Leonard; they embarked on a road trip to California for a couple of weeks. Harvey returned to California later alone and worked for his Uncle Chet Grewing at his