5th of 12 children of BENSON GOLDSBARRY BOMBERGER & FRANCES ISABELLE "BELLE" JONES
Died: at age 26; from injuries suffered in the war and the Spanish flu
Military: WWI, Army private

Married: Dec 27, 1911, EMMA MARIE ROGMAN, Nebraska
Three children:
1. Helen Freda BOMBERGER
1913 - 1997
2. Ray Merle "Jake" BOMBERGER
1915 - 1994
3. Pauline Frances BOMBERGER (m. Lee William/Loraine ARVIG)
1917 - living

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Thursday, Oct 17, 1918, THE STERLING SUN, Sterling, Johnson Co., Nebraska:
DIED
Benson Guelsbery Bomberger died Monday evening, October 14th at 8:30 p.m. at his home in this city. The deceased was born in Helena precinct June 12th, 1892, and was therefore just 26 years and four months old at the time of his death. He has always made Johnson county his home. Some two weeks ago he was taken ill and later the malady developed into pneumonia which was the cause of his death. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his departure. Besides his father and mother, three brothers; Andy of Sterling, Wilmer of France and Pete of Camp Dix, New Jersey; five sisters, Della, Nellie, and Mrs. Florence Riensche of Sterling; Mrs. Lucy Janssen of Helena and Mrs. Wright of St. Paul, Tex.

The funeral service will be conducted today at 2p.m. from the home and interment will be in the Sterling cemetery.
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Thursday, Oct 24, 1918, THE STERLING SUN, Sterling, Johnson Co., Nebraska:
OBITUARY
Benson Guelsbery Bombarger was born June 12, 1892 and died October 14th 1918 at his home in this city at 8:30p.m. The cause of his death was the Spanish influenza. The best of care was given him, but of no avail and when his time came he gracefully submitted to the will of Him who knows all things best. The funeral services were held from the home Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Lehman of the Helena Church, and old friend of the family, preached a grand sermon, taking the text from Luke 12-40.

The deceased was marrried to Emma Mary Rogman on December 27, 1911, and to this union were born three children who with the widow are left to mourn the loss of a good and loving father. Besides these he leaves a father, mother, five sisters and three brothers and other relatives. Thus in the prime of life he has gone to join the mulitude in the Great Beyond. The Home Guards, of which he was a member, were out in full force and accompanied the remains to the Sterling Cemetery where the last rites were performed of the departed one.

When the morning birds are on the wing, my first thoughts are of thee, and I think perhaps the evening will bring you back to me. When evening brings the twilight and spreads o'er land and sea, I hope the dawn beyond the night will bring you back to me. The days are beads on an endless chain, and this their only key. That sometime, somehow, something, will bring you back to me.
Then this the thoughts by angels send, I hear on bended knee, and know at last the Judgement will bring you back to me.
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