Homer Stanley Benson, Jr. Thursday, May 27, 2021
Homer Stanley Benson, Jr.
Dr. Homer Stanley Benson, Jr., 95, died peacefully in his Chattanooga home on Tuesday, May 25, 2021.
A resident of Chattanooga since 2006, he was an active member of the Kiwanis Club and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. He also served for many years as a judge on the Torch Award Committee for the Better Business Bureau and as a volunteer counselor for SCORE.
Dr. Benson was born on December 29, 1925 in Columbia, South Carolina, the son of Homer Stanley Benson Sr. and Lou Ellen Bragg. His parents soon after moved back to Columbus Georgia where Dr. Benson graduated from Columbus High School. Further schooling was interrupted by his military service in World War II as a Navy dental assistant in Corpus Christi and then Great Lakes Naval Training Center. In 1950 he graduated from the University of Georgia as a proud Sigma Chi with a BS in Chemistry. Schooling was interrupted again by
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