BENDA, Goldie Y. 1908-2000

BENDA, BENSON, BARTLETT

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Date: 11/7/2014 at 04:40:43

The Fairfield Ledger
Monday, October 9, 2000

Goldie Y. BENDA

Goldie Y. BENDA, 92, of Washington, Iowa, died Friday, Oct. 6, 2000, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. James Catholic Church in Washington, with the Rev. Eugene Benda officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery in East Pleasant Plain.

Visitation begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Jones Eden Funeral Home in Washington. A prayer service, led by Sister Jane McCarty, will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Memorials may be made to Halcyon Good Samaritan Fund, St. James or St. Mary Catholic churches.

Mrs. BENDA was born Aug. 27, 1908, in Searsboro, the daughter of Roscoe and Golda BENSON BARTLETT. She married Albert BENDA at St. Mary Catholic Church in Fairfield March 13, 1933. He died in 1998.

She graduated from Brighton High School and attended Cedar Rapids Business College in Cedar Rapids.

She lived in Fairfield for 60 years. She was a stenographer for the Louden Machinery Company for 39 years. She served as the organist for St. Mary Church for 40 years. She had lived in Washington since 1989.

She was a member of St. James Church in Washington and former member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Fairfield.

Mrs. BENDA was the last survivor of her immediate family. Survivors include several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents.

(Transcribed for genealogy purposes only.)