Verna Pearl Fender 1927-2007

FENDER, MALCOM, BASS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/24/2008 at 21:22:47

Sioux City Journal
4 September 2007

Verna Pearl Fender
WHITING, Iowa -- Verna Pearl Fender, 80, of Whiting died Saturday, Sept. 1, 2007, at Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Whiting Christian Church, with the Rev. Rusty Hedger officiating. Burial will be in Harrison Cemetery. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. today at Rush Family Care Service in Onawa, Iowa.

Verna Pearl was born May 13, 1927, in Ponca, Neb., the daughter of Vernon and Pearl (Malcom) Bass. She was raised in Dixon County, Neb., and graduated from Dixon High School. She later received her teaching certificate from Wayne State Teacher's College.

She and Lloyd P. Fender were united in marriage on Aug. 16, 1947, in Dixon, Neb. They made their home in rural Whiting, where they raised their family. Through the years, she taught school and furthered her education at Morningside College and the University of South Dakota, where she earned her master's degree in elementary counseling. She retired from Whiting Community School in 1989, after 25 years of teaching.

She was currently a member of Whiting Christian Church after the closing of Albaton Wesleyan Church, where she served as pianist for more than 50 years. She was a member of the Gideon International Auxiliary. The couple enjoyed traveling and spent 16 winters in Arizona. She enjoyed photography, loved to cook and flower gardening. She loved her children and the grandchildren and each of them was always remembered for their special holidays and occasions.

Survivors include her husband, Lloyd; her children and their spouses, Dennis and Jacque Fender of Bloomfield, Neb., Susan and Daryl Catron of Wichita, Kan., and Rodney and Linda Fender of Caldwell, Idaho; eight grandchildren, Casey and Whitney Fender, Mark Luthi, Celeste Fenwick, Jeremy Fender, Julie Burrows and Austin Fender; four great-grandchildren, Eli and Chloe Fender and Kiara and Mariah Burrows; two brothers and their wives, Dale and Mariam Bass of Redbluff, Calif., and Dwight and Margaret Bass of Sacramento, Calif.; a sister-in-law, Dorothy Kibbel of Elgin, N.D.; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and a niece, Karen Jane Bass.

Memorials may be directed to the Gideon's International.

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