Ben grew up in Sweetwater and graduated from Sweetwater High School. He went on to the University of Tennessee, where he was a member of the UT Singers, and he obtained a degree in Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design. Subsequently, he received a degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia.

For the past eight years, Ben has been employed by Mariani Landscape as a lead Landscape Architect. His professional memberships include the Illinois Contractors Association as well as the American Society of Landscape Architects, for whom he served as a membership chair.

His designs were featured in the Chicago-area North Shore Magazine. He was granted the IL-ASLA Honor Award in 2005. Ben is survived by his partner of eleven years, Bill Lhotka; his parents, Ann and John Seiler; brothers, John (Jeni) Seiler and Clark (Frances) Seiler; by loving nephew and nieces, Harrison, Mandy, and Caroline Seiler and by his adored Akita, Kuma.