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Edna Lachenmeier Bender
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Birth: Apr. 6, 1924
Logan County
North Dakota, USA
Death: Aug. 21, 2002
Fargo
Cass County
North Dakota, USA
Edna Bender, 78, Jamestown, died Aug. 21, 2002, at MeritCare Hospital, Fargo, N.D.
Edna Lachenmeier was born April 6, 1924, on a farm in Cokato Township. 14 miles east of Napoleon, N.D., the daughter of August and Christina (Becker) Lachenmeier. She grew up in Cokato Township where she helped with cooking, cleaning and washing clothes after her mother was ill, and cared for her brothers and sisters after her mother died in 1935.
She married Alvin Bender on Feb. 28, 1943. They lived in Maryland and Virginia while he was in the service and was stationed there. After the service, they returned to the Bender home near Streeter, N.D., where they farmed until retiring in 1966. They moved to Jamestown, where she was held various jobs. She was a member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ, Jamestown. She enjoyed her flowers and reading cookbooks.
She is survived by two daughters, Diane (Dennis) Morlock, Streeter, and Darlene (Leon) Dewald, Jamestown; a sister, Ella (Al) Guthmiller, Jamestown; three brothers, Johnny (Edna), Cleveland, N.D., Art (Denelda), Tappen, N.D., and August (Lorraine), Hardin, Mont.; a sister-in-law, Helen Lachenmeier, Napoleon; a brother-in-law, Christ Schatz, Jamestown; three half brothers, Herbert, Charles and Gerald; five half sisters, Leona, Marjorie, Ruby, Kathy and Caroline; and three grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her stepmother, Alma; three brothers, Albert, Gideon and Willie; four sisters, Christina, Amelia, Lillian and Helen; a half sister, Lucille; and three half brothers, Arnold James, Gary and Walter in infancy.
Burial: Highland Home Cemetery, Jamestown.
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Spouse:
Alvin G Bender (1917 - 1989)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Highland Home Cemetery
Jamestown
Stutsman County
North Dakota, USA
Created by: William Ewing
Record added: May 01, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 109795401
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