Obit: Bender, Harvey Logan (1866 - 1964)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Bender, Smith, Martin, Kissling, Meddaugh, Short, Sharratt, Williams, Doering

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) December 10, 1964

Bender, Harvey Logan (21 December 1866 - 5 December 1964)

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday forenoon from the Gilbertson Funeral Home in Granton for Harvey L. Bender, 97, of Rt. 1 Neillsville, who died Saturday in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield. The Rev. Paul Doering of the Loyal Methodist Church officiated and burial was made in the Mt. Tabor Cemetery in Sabin.

Harvey Logan Bender was born December 21, 1866, in Richland County.  On July 17, 1892, he was married in Richland County to the former Mary Lucinda Smith, who died in October 1919.  They moved in 1900 onto a farm in the Town of Washburn.  He served on the county board from Washburn for several years.

Mr. Bender is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Essie Martin of Wisconsin Rapids; four sons, Elmer of Loyal, Lloyd of Grass Valley, Calif., David of Neillsville, and Bernard of Manitowoc; 13 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were: Harry and Ted Kissling, Neil Meddaugh, Art Short, Roland Sharratt and Oliver Williams.