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- Providence Journal (RI)
April 23, 2001
BENJAMIN EASTON LANDERS, 88, of 18 Wesley St., a retired landscaper, died Saturday at the Village House Nursing Home.
He was the husband of the late Mary E. (Sherman) Landers. Born in Newport, he was the son of the late Charles and Jane (Easton) Landers.
Mr. Landers was a landscaper at the Island Cemetery for 20 years, retiring in 1975, and had previously worked at Harlow's Aquidneck Creamery. During World War II he worked at the former Naval Torpedo Station on Goat Island.
He was a past president of the Rogers High School Alumni Booster Club, and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the St. Joseph Senior Citizens.
An avid sportsman, he had played football and baseball at Rogers High School, and on the Old Aquidneck Football Team, and had coached in the Newport Little League and Babe Ruth League.
He leaves two sons, Charles M. Landers of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Benjamin J. Landers of Newport; two daughters, Jane A. Brennan of Warrenton, Va., and Mary C. Clark of Middletown; and nine grandchildren. He was the brother of the late George V. Landers and Myra Kenney.
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