Services for L.C. “Shorty, The Volkswagen Man” Benjamin, ofBrookhaven, are 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 22 at Alexander Junior HighAuditorium with burial in Carver Heights Cemetery.

Visitation is Wednesday from noon until 7 p.m. at R.E. TylerFuneral Home Chapel. The family will be present from 6 to 7p.m.

Mr. Benjamin, 81, died Dec. 15, 2005, at his residence. He wasborn on Feb. 11, 1924, to Isaiah “Sonny” Benjamin and Gladys IreneWilson Benjamin.

He was a mechanic and he served in the Army.

Preceding him in death were his parents; and two sisters, AlmetaBenjamin and Gussie Brown McIntyre.

Survivors are his wife, Ella M. Benjamin, of Brookhaven; hissons, Lawrence Benjamin, of Brookhaven, Simmie Benjamin, of SilverCreek, Bruce Benjamin, of Hazlehurst, and Joseph Franklin Jr., ofBrookhaven; his daughters, Doris Coleman, of Brookhaven, BettyGriffin, of Brookhaven, Marjorie Benjamin, of Jackson, and DanitaBrown, of Killeen, Texas; his brothers, Alvin Benjamin, ofBrookhaven, and Calvin Benjamin, of Chicago, Ill.; his sisters,Alease Houston, of Chicago, and Marie Brice, Hazel Jackson, andHelen Diggs, all of Brookhaven; 23 grandchildren; 25great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.