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Archive Home > 2006 > July > 16 > As fate would have it

As fate would have it

Sixty years ago, while a batboy for Spokane's minor-league baseball team, circumstances spared a Central Oregon man from a bus ride with a tragic ending

By Bill Bigelow / The Bulletin
July 16, 2006

It was when he was a college kid, hospitalized for an emergency appendectomy, that Ken Benshoof met a lovely young student nurse named Maxine. The two have been married now for 50 years.

When he decided to quit college and sign on for active duty in the Navy during the Korean War, a chance....

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