Benjamin Franklin Cochran

(June 05, 1894-July 19, 1978)

Tulare Advance-Register

July 19, 1978

Services are pending at Peers Funeral Services for Ben Cochran, 84, 415 S. C St. He died today in a Tulare hospital.

Tulare Advance-Register

July 20, 1978

Benjamin Cochran-Services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. in the Chapel of Peers Funeral Service for Benjamin F. Cochran, 84, 415 S. C St. He died Wednesday in a Tulare hospital.

Cochran was a native of Paris, Texas and had lived in Tulare for the past 37 years. He was a retired warehouseman for a packing company. He was a member of Bethel Assembly of God, the Modern Woodsmen of America and belong to the Teamsters Union.

He is survived by two sons, John Cochran and Ben G. Cochran, both of Tulare; a daughter Billie Ruminer, Tulare; six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren; a brother, Howard Cochran, Hotenville, Okla., and two sisters, Sue Patton, Lakeport, and Helen Chapman, Mangum, Okla.

Burial will be in Tulare Cemetery, next to his wife Inez Cochran, who died May 27, 1973.

Submitted by Vanessa Deshazer