OBIT: BENDA, Mrs. John [Anna POLLACK]; 1934
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Submitted by: Leona L. Gustafson   <genealogybug@gustafson.net>
June 04, 2002
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Source:  The Colby [KS] Free Press, no date, Obituary.

AN AGED LADY IN DEATH
Had Lived in Thomas County for Thirty Years

Friends of many years crowded the Evangelical church Monday afternoon 
for the funeral services of Mrs. John Benda.  Full of years, this good 
woman had come unagraid to the end with the satisfaction of a life well 
lived, of many deeds accomplished, and surrounded by the love of her 
children and many friends.  The service was conducted by the pastor, 
Rev. Groves, assisted by Rev. L. R. Templin.  Interment was in Beulah 
cemetery beside her husband who died in 1931.

Anna Pollack [sic.] was born at Marisch Neustadt, Austria on January 22, 1861.  
When a young woman she came to America and arrived at Columbia, Nebr., 
September 29, 1883.  On November 3rd, of that year she became the bride of 
John Benda, an acquaintance from her old home town who had come to America 
five years before.

Mr. and Mrs. Benda became the parents of nine children all of whom are still 
living and were privileged to be present to share together the sorrow that 
comes to them in the passing of their mother, and to find a measure of comfort 
in the memory or the splendid life she lived.  The husband and father passed 
away on January 27, 1931.

In 1905 the family moved to a farm near Halford, where they resided until the 
failing health of the father forced them to retire from the farm and move to 
Colby where Mrs. Benda has continued to reside until her death.

Those who remain to mourn her passing are the children:  Mrs. Anna Neal of 
Dolores, Colo., Oscar Benda of Halford, Mrs. Ella Parrott of Flagler, Colo., 
Mrs. Minnie Howard of Boulder, Colo., Mrs. Theresia Kleeman of Elbert, Colo., 
Robert Benda of Achilles, Mrs. Marie Anderson of Halford, Mrs. Sophia McKinney 
and Mrs. Rose Ryan, of Colby; thirty-three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, 
one sister, Mrs. Marie Siefert of Marisch Neustadt, Czechoslovakia; and a host of friends.

Grandma Benda will be remembered by many for the service she has rendered and 
the kindness she has shown to them.  In her younger days and in spite of the 
demands of her own family she found time and strength to be a nurse in the homes 
of friends and neighbors when there was time of such need.  She lived her life 
in a trust in her God, simply and sincerely seeking to follow the precept of the 
Master's Golden Rule.  As long as her health continued she was faithfully lovable [?] 
to her church.  Following some years of declining health she came to her passing 
from this life on July 27, 1934, trusting in death as she had trusted in the life 
that God would take care of her.

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