William John Bendfeldt was born January 15, 1892 at Oldenburg, Germany. He came to the United States in February 1911 and worked around Bellwood, Nebraska. On March 6, 1916 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Markus.
For the first three years of their married life they lived on a farm near Rising City. On March 1, 1919 they moved to a farm four miles west of Gibbon where he built a fine large home.
He was taken ill suddenly and was taken to the Good Samaritan hospital at Kearney where he passed away on Friday evening at the age of forty-six years, six months and seven days.
To this union two sons were born, Walter H. and Arthur W. Both live at home and with their mother survive, also four sisters and two brothers in Germany. He was a kin, loving husband and father and a hard worker and will be greatly missed by relatives and friends and members of the Farmers Union.
He was a faithful member of the Catholic church. Funeral services were held at St. James church in Kearney on Monday morning at 9:00 o'clock with Father Muenstermann officiating and he was laid to rest in the Kearney cemetery. The pallbearers were Earl Hammans, John Fitzgerald, Roy Prewitt, John Bertoldi, Jules DeBaets, and A. C. Wittera.
Kearney Daily Hub, Monday, August 01, 1938, page 4
For the first three years of their married life they lived on a farm near Rising City. On March 1, 1919 they moved to a farm four miles west of Gibbon where he built a fine large home.
He was taken ill suddenly and was taken to the Good Samaritan hospital at Kearney where he passed away on Friday evening at the age of forty-six years, six months and seven days.
To this union two sons were born, Walter H. and Arthur W. Both live at home and with their mother survive, also four sisters and two brothers in Germany. He was a kin, loving husband and father and a hard worker and will be greatly missed by relatives and friends and members of the Farmers Union.
He was a faithful member of the Catholic church. Funeral services were held at St. James church in Kearney on Monday morning at 9:00 o'clock with Father Muenstermann officiating and he was laid to rest in the Kearney cemetery. The pallbearers were Earl Hammans, John Fitzgerald, Roy Prewitt, John Bertoldi, Jules DeBaets, and A. C. Wittera.
Kearney Daily Hub, Monday, August 01, 1938, page 4
William John Bendfeldt was born January 15, 1892 at Oldenburg, Germany. He came to the United States in February 1911 and worked around Bellwood, Nebraska. On March 6, 1916 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Markus.
For the first three years of their married life they lived on a farm near Rising City. On March 1, 1919 they moved to a farm four miles west of Gibbon where he built a fine large home.
He was taken ill suddenly and was taken to the Good Samaritan hospital at Kearney where he passed away on Friday evening at the age of forty-six years, six months and seven days.
To this union two sons were born, Walter H. and Arthur W. Both live at home and with their mother survive, also four sisters and two brothers in Germany. He was a kin, loving husband and father and a hard worker and will be greatly missed by relatives and friends and members of the Farmers Union.
He was a faithful member of the Catholic church. Funeral services were held at St. James church in Kearney on Monday morning at 9:00 o'clock with Father Muenstermann officiating and he was laid to rest in the Kearney cemetery. The pallbearers were Earl Hammans, John Fitzgerald, Roy Prewitt, John Bertoldi, Jules DeBaets, and A. C. Wittera.
Kearney Daily Hub, Monday, August 01, 1938, page 4
For the first three years of their married life they lived on a farm near Rising City. On March 1, 1919 they moved to a farm four miles west of Gibbon where he built a fine large home.
He was taken ill suddenly and was taken to the Good Samaritan hospital at Kearney where he passed away on Friday evening at the age of forty-six years, six months and seven days.
To this union two sons were born, Walter H. and Arthur W. Both live at home and with their mother survive, also four sisters and two brothers in Germany. He was a kin, loving husband and father and a hard worker and will be greatly missed by relatives and friends and members of the Farmers Union.
He was a faithful member of the Catholic church. Funeral services were held at St. James church in Kearney on Monday morning at 9:00 o'clock with Father Muenstermann officiating and he was laid to rest in the Kearney cemetery. The pallbearers were Earl Hammans, John Fitzgerald, Roy Prewitt, John Bertoldi, Jules DeBaets, and A. C. Wittera.
Kearney Daily Hub, Monday, August 01, 1938, page 4
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