I knew Benno from classes and he was a great person but I never saw him after graduation. Then literally twenty years later I was working on the Brunswick Fire Dept. and I saw the department chaplain, who lived in the same neighborhood and maybe a half-mile away. He looked depressed so I asked him what was wrong.
He said his neighbor across the street, the same age as us, worked for a delivery service (I think it was UPS). He had fallen off a stepstool at work and landed on the concrete. People who saw the accident knew he had not fallen far or landed hard but he was in a lot of pain. At the hospital the docs found his back was broken in several places and he was riddled with bone cancer, in his late 30's. The chaplain said he had just been visiting "Benno" and it looked bad.
I said "Benno? I went to high school in Parma with a Benno Ledinek." The chaplain looked shocked and said so had this Benno and that was his last name.
This conversation took place sometime after one of our class reunions and Benno passed a few days later. I found a Benno H. Ledinek in the Social Security Death Master file who was born on Nov. 25, 1955 with an SSN issued to someone from Ohio, who passed away on December 19, 1993.
Ray Pesek
I knew Benno from classes and he was a great person but I never saw him after graduation. Then literally twenty years later I was working on the Brunswick Fire Dept. and I saw the department chaplain, who lived in the same neighborhood and maybe a half-mile away. He looked depressed so I asked him what was wrong.
He said his neighbor across the street, the same age as us, worked for a delivery service (I think it was UPS). He had fallen off a stepstool at work and landed on the concrete. People who saw the accident knew he had not fallen far or landed hard but he was in a lot of pain. At the hospital the docs found his back was broken in several places and he was riddled with bone cancer, in his late 30's. The chaplain said he had just been visiting "Benno" and it looked bad.
I said "Benno? I went to high school in Parma with a Benno Ledinek." The chaplain looked shocked and said so had this Benno and that was his last name.
This conversation took place sometime after one of our class reunions and Benno passed a few days later. I found a Benno H. Ledinek in the Social Security Death Master file who was born on Nov. 25, 1955 with an SSN issued to someone from Ohio, who passed away on December 19, 1993.