Stevens Point Daily Journal - Stevens Point, Wisconsin - February 26, 1962

Glenn Bender

Glenn Bender, 43, a former resident of Bancroft, died last Wednesday at the Veterans Hospital in New Orleans, La. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Goult-Patterson-Hardell Funeral Home, Plainfield. The Rev. Kenneth Johnson of the Plainfield Baptist Church will officiate, and burial will take place in the Plainfield Cemetery.

Mr. Bender was born July 16, 1918, in Bancroft, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bender. He was a graduate of the old Bancroft High School. Among his survivors are four sons, Bruce, Bancroft, and Ronnie, Glenwood and Conrad, all in service. They are his children by a previous marriage. He also has three children by his present marriage. Also surviving are his wife; his mother, Mrs. Edith Bender, Bancroft; four brothers. Cecil and Arthur, Bancroft, Lloyd, Oshkosh, and Raymond, Milwaukee, five sisters, Mrs. Walter Dorsey and Mrs. Jack Kramer, Oshkosh, Mrs. Edward Beach, Mrs. Marie Pierce. Wisconsin Rapids, and Mrs. Eleanor Thompson, Janesville. Two brothers and his father preceded him in death.


Stevens Point Daily Journal - Stevens Point, Wisconsin - March 2, 1962

Mr. Bender's funeral

Funeral services were hold Tuesday at the Goutt-Patterson-Hardell Funeral Home in Plainfield for Glenn W. Bender, 43, a former Bancroft resident who died last week in New Orleans. La. The Rev. Kenneth Johnson of the Plainfield Baptist Church officiated, and burial look place in the Plainfield Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Adolph Belke, LoDean Meddaugh, Ray Schenck, Cleo Butts, Lawrence Cummings and Paulee Bee. Hymns were sung by Mrs. Ruth Tubbs, accompanied by Mrs. Albert Walter. Mr. Bender was a son of Mrs. Edith Bender, Bancroft, and the late Clarence Bender. Other survivors include his wife, seven children, four brothers and five sisters. One son, Bennie, died in childhood.

Attending the funeral from a distance were his wife and daughter, Glenda, from Louisiana: two sons, Ronald, Philadelphia, and Glenwood, Michigan: Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bender, Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Thompson, Janesville: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kramer and daughter Judy, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bender and daughter Delores, Kenneth Bender and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dorsey, Oshkosh; Mr. and Mrs. LaVern Bender, Beloit: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pierce and children, Norma and Roger, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Pierce, William Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. Max Scanlan and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Weeks, Wisconsin Rapids: Mrs. Rose Tibbits and Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Gear Hancock, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schenck, Biron.

* Obituraies contributed by: genealogyfever; Find A Grave Member #46554566.