benita

name

1. A female given name from Spanish.

   “Benita Bischoff, the 16-year-old daughter of Vivian Gordon, the vice inquiry witness who was found strangled in Van Cortlandt Park, committed suicide in Audubon, N.J., yesterday by inhaling gas.”

   “The chapel of the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest was the setting yesterday afternoon for the wedding of Miss Benita Parker Bryant and Peter Brian Trinkle. The couple’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. A. Parker Bryant of Palm Beach, Fla., and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Trinkle of Fareham, Hampshire, England.”

   “Benita Valente was born on Oct. 19, 1934, in Delano, Calif., in the San Joaquin Valley, where her parents owned a dairy farm and grew cotton.”