Bennie Steven Benson Steve Benson, 52, died Monday, May 11, 1998. Benson was born Dec. 14, 1945, in Caribou, Maine. He was a 1963 graduate of Stuttgart High School and a graduate of Arkansas State University at Jonesboro. He was an Army veteran from 1967-1973 and served in the Vietnam war where he received a Purple Heart. He was a farmer and had been a State Farm insurance agent for 21 years. He was involved in Searcy youth athletics and was a member of First Baptist Church, Searcy Veterans of Foreign Wars, Searcy Breakfast Lions Club and Searcy Masonic Lodge. He was preceded in death by his father, Bennie Allen Benson; one sister, Debbie Jenkins; and his step-father, Roger Benson. Survivors include his wife, Linda Freeman Benson; one son, Steven King Benson of Paragould; two daughters, Brooks Benson Sawyers of Jonesboro and Bethany Elizabeth Benson of Little Rock and Roger Lee Benson of Olive Branch. Miss.; and two grandchildren; Jacob and Logan Sawyers.