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by the National Biscuit Company at Syracuse, New York. There he as so anxious to get established and make up for lost time he overworked and his tubercular trouble returned, forcing him to enter the Onendagua Sanatorim. He was there for a time and was then moved to the Biggs Memorial Hospital, Ithaca, New York, where he passed was of May 3rd, 1938. He was survived by his wife, a five year old daughter and two sisters. He was buried in the family lot at Great Bend, Pennsylvania.
Early Flying Pioneer, World War I aviator, C.Ray Benedict deserves great credit for the valued contribution he made to early American aviation history. As one of the early airmen his faith and enthusiastic devotion to a new science assisted in the start of the aviation industry the work enjoyed today.

FROM THE
FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES 
OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE