Malcolm D. Benson died on January 1, 2015, in Ontario, California, of complications from pneumonia. He was 94. Born in Winchester, Indiana, on March 27, 1920, he served in the Army in New Guinea during World War II. He earned a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s in organ at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, where he studied with Frank Van Duzen. He was an assistant professor of music at Wheaton College in Illinois where he met the love of his life, Phyllis J.
