Margurite Bender Venator

BENDER, VENATOR

Posted By: Mary (email)
Date: 6/2/2009 at 16:19:52

Courtesy of the Ottumwa Courier Jan. 16, 1973

Mrs. Max Venator did today at 3:00 p.m. at the Ottumwa Hospital.

The daughter of George and Elizabeth McCormick Bender; she was born July 20, 1897 in Wapello county Iowa. She was a member of the First Pentecostal church and had been a resident of Wapello county all her life.

She married Max Venator at Lancaster, MO. He died in 1970.She was also preceded in death by one daughter; Pauline Williamson in 1947; three sisters; one brother; and her first husband George Williamson.

Survivors include one son; Gene Williamson of Ottumwa; three stepdaughters; Mrs. Avis Rowley of Bloomfield; Mrs. Dorothy Humble of Ottumwa and Mrs. Bernice Buckhols of Agency, and one brother: Paul Bender of Glendale, Ariz.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Johnson Funeral Home. Burial will be at McCormick Cemetery.