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- The Bismarck Tribune | Posted: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 12:00 am | (0) Comments
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Frank Bender, 71, Lincoln Meadows, died Aug. 20, 2004, at a Minneapolis hospital after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 26, at Peace Lutheran Church, Lincoln. Burial will be in the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan.
There will be no visitation; cremation has taken place.
Frank W. Bender was born Oct. 10, 1932, in rural Emmons County, to William and Lydia (Zoller) Bender. They farmed in the Hazelton area, where he attended school. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1951 to 1954, during which time he was stationed in Japan and served in the Korean Conflict. He returned to Hazelton, where he met and married Bertha Knapp on Nov. 3, 1958, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. They moved to Bismarck, where she still resides.
Frank was employed with Northwest Beverages and his last employment was with the Burleigh County Highway Department.
Frank loved the outdoors and his work, and he had an avid love for animals.
Grateful to have shared his life are his wife, Bertha (Bert); their three sons and two daughters-in-law, Paul (Butch) and Sharon, Bismarck, Douglas (Jake), Bismarck, and Terry and Elaine, Duluth, Minn.; two special grandsons, Michael and Jason; a very special great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Rose; one brother, Kenny Bender, Hazelton; and four sisters, Viola Meyers, Richland, Wash., Della and Gene Braaten, Arnegard, Carol Bender, Minneapolis, and Betty Bender, Seattle.
Preceding Frank in death were his parents, Bill and Lydia Bender; and one son, Timothy. (Bismarck Funeral Home)
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