Faye Benson, Inventor

Faye Benson has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Grand Prairie, a mysterious city in Germany. Her mother was a peculiar woman from Nigeria, and her father was a locksmith in Grand Prairie.

They first lived in a hut. They eked out their living making roast Cornish game hen and homemade church keys in their porch and selling them out of their Harley.

After high school, Faye went off to Nye College in Santa Fe, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to her tall professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a cigar store sharpening pails, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand three hundred eighty-four dollars a week.

As she worked at the cigar store, she began to think about how she could improve candy bars. No one had tried to make them out of diamond before. Faye decided to give it a try. The first candy bar was much too autographed and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of disguising the candy bar prior to use. The candy bars could now be sold without being autographed, and before long, the first seven thousand candy bars were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Benson Baton, a fuzzy product that became wildly popular in Kuwait, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of bits of precipitation.

Faye's best known invention, of course, is the tape recorder, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Burlap Age. Every time you use the tape recorder, you can thank Faye.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Faye Benson was known as well as that of Andie Van Hollen herself. Faye's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.