BENDER, Idella Ruth 1891 - 1944

BENDER, COREY, VORHIES, VAN WINKLE, RAMEY

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:27

"The Fairfield (Ia.,) Daily Ledger"
Saturday, October 7, 1944
Page SIX, Column 5

BENDER RITES MONDAY A. M.

Mrs. William BENDER, well known local resident, passed away Friday afternoon at 3:05 p.m. at the Jefferson county hospital. Mrs. BENDER has been in failing health for the past several years and has been bedfast for the past twenty months. She has been seriously ill for the past three weeks.

The funeral will be Monday at 10 a.m. at the Methodist church of which she was a member. Rev. A. P. Kerst (note: 'r' inverted) and A. K. Harper will officiate, and burial will be in Evergreen cemetery. The body will be taken from the Hoskins funeral home to the church at 9:30 a.m.

Mrs. BENDER, the former Idella Ruth COREY, was born in Walnut township of Jefferson county and would have been fifty-three years of age October 14 (sic - Nov. 14th). She is survived by her husband, William, a son Harold Ralph, who is serving with the U. S. navy at Little Creek, Va., and a daughter, Mrs. Harold VORHIES of Fairfield, and four grandchildren. Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. H. H. VanWINKLE and M. H. COREY both of Fairfield, W. S. COREY of New London, Jesse COREY of Mt. Union, John L. COREY of Morning Sun, and Mrs. Alice E. RAMEY of Los Angeles.

Mrs. BENDER was also a member of the Degree of Honor.

~~~~

"The News"
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
Monday, October 9, 1944
Page FOUR, Column 2

SISTER OF TWO HENRY CONTY MEN DIES

Fairfield.--Mrs. William BENDER, well known local resident, passed away Friday afternoon at 3:05 at the Jefferson county hospital. Mrs. BENDER had been in failing health for the past several years and had been bedfast for the past twenty months. She had been seriously ill for the past three weeks.

The funeral was today at ten a.m., at the Methodist church of which she was a member.

Mrs. BENDER, the former Idella Ruth COREY, was born in Walnut township of Jefferson county and would have been fifty-three years of age October 14 (sic). She is survived by her husband, William, a son Harold Ralph, with the U. S. navy, and a daughter, Mrs. Harold VORHIES of Fairfield; also surviving are the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. H. H. VanWINKLE, and M. H. COREY, both of Fairfield, W. S. COREY of New London, Jesse COREY of Mount Union, John L. COREY of Morning Sun, and Mrs. Alice E. RAMEY of Los Angeles.

~~~~
Copied with permission from The Fairfield Ledger, Inc.; others digital copyright 2020. IAGenWeb Bylaws PROHIBIT the COPYING AND RE-POSTING OF THIS MATERIAL IN ANY PUBLIC VENUE such as Ancestry or Find A Grave without WRITTEN permission from the poster ~ copyright restrictions apply.
*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: Buried in Lot Old.P.145 with husband John William BENDER, who died in 1955.