November 23, 1988
William A. Stender, 84, of Chatfield a retired machinist, died Sunday, November 13, 1988, at Chosen Valley Care Center, where he had lived since 1985.
He was born Oct. 22, 1904, in rural Wykoff, grew up in that area and attended parochial school in Wykoff. He farmed for a time on the family farm, then moved to western Minnesota, where he was a trucker until moving to the Chatfield area in 1950. He worked as a machinist for Hervey Implement Co. & Bernard Co. in the Chatfield area. On March 14, 1953, he married Agnes Blumers Battey in Chatfield. He was an avid vegetable gardener.
Survivors include is wife; a stepson, Donald Battey of Austin, Texas; three step grandchildren; two step great-grandsons; four brothers, Louis, August and Ray, all of Wykoff, and John of Hastins; and three sisters, Frances (Mrs. John) Welter of Mesa, Ariz., Meta (Mrs. Herman) Bitker of Lake Crystal, Minn., and Marcella (Mrs. Milland) Paulson of Austin, Minn. A brother and six sisters preceded him in death.
The funeral was at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Chatfield with the Rev. Clark A. Jaeger officiating. Spring Burial will be in the Chatfield Cemetery.
Arrangements were by Riley Funeral Home in Chatfield.
November 23, 1988
William A. Stender, 84, of Chatfield a retired machinist, died Sunday, November 13, 1988, at Chosen Valley Care Center, where he had lived since 1985.
He was born Oct. 22, 1904, in rural Wykoff, grew up in that area and attended parochial school in Wykoff. He farmed for a time on the family farm, then moved to western Minnesota, where he was a trucker until moving to the Chatfield area in 1950. He worked as a machinist for Hervey Implement Co. & Bernard Co. in the Chatfield area. On March 14, 1953, he married Agnes Blumers Battey in Chatfield. He was an avid vegetable gardener.
Survivors include is wife; a stepson, Donald Battey of Austin, Texas; three step grandchildren; two step great-grandsons; four brothers, Louis, August and Ray, all of Wykoff, and John of Hastins; and three sisters, Frances (Mrs. John) Welter of Mesa, Ariz., Meta (Mrs. Herman) Bitker of Lake Crystal, Minn., and Marcella (Mrs. Milland) Paulson of Austin, Minn. A brother and six sisters preceded him in death.
The funeral was at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Chatfield with the Rev. Clark A. Jaeger officiating. Spring Burial will be in the Chatfield Cemetery.
Arrangements were by Riley Funeral Home in Chatfield.
Family Members
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Henrietta Hattie Eickhoff
1896–1981
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Lisette M Stender
1898–1918
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Martha E Stender
1899–1918
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August George Frederick Stender
1902–1995
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Meta M Stender Bitker
1905–1989
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Esther Martha Stender Rush
1906–1981
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John H Stender
1908–1992
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Frances Belcher-Welter
1910–2004
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Anna Louise Alvine Stender Brandt
1911–1977
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Wilhelmina A Carson
1913–1986
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Raymond O Stender
1914–1998
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Marcella Carrie Emma "Marc" Stender Paulson
1916–2010
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PFC Leonard A Stender
1926–1945
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