OBIT: Ezra C. BENDER, 1989, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  BENDER
  
  Ezra C. Bender, 91, 1535 N. College Ave., Harrisonburg, Va., died 2:30 p.m.
  Tuesday, Aug. 1, 1989, at Oak Lea Nursing Home.  Born Jan. 3, 1898 at
  Springs, Pa., son of the late John H. Bender and Lydia (Miller) Bender.  He
  taught grade school at Springs.  He attended Juniata College 1916-18.  On
  Dec. 15, 1920, he married Gertrude Kauffman (died July 4, 1987) of
  Martinsburg, Pa., where they operated a dairy farm for a number of years. 
  Beginning in 1925, he taught at the Mennonite Johnstown (Pa.) Bible School
  for a seven-week term each winter for a period of 14 years.  He served as a
  director and as secretary of the North Woodbury Township School Board
  beginning in 1935.  In 1939, the Bender family moved to Elkhart, Ind.,
  where Mr. Bender served as treasurer of the Mennonite Board of Missions and
  Charities for 11 years.  In 1950, the family returned to Martinsburg, and
  Mr. Bender continued to serve the Mission Board as a member of its
  executive committee, and as secretary of health and welfare from 1958 to
  1968, when with his retirement, they moved to Harrisonburg.  Mr. Bender
  also served as a member of the executive committee of the Mennonite
  publication board from 1951, as president of the board from 1953 until
  1969, and during this latter period as representative of the board to
  Mennonite General Conference.  Surviving is one son, Byron W., Honolulu,
  Hawaii, and five grandchildren: Susan Alice, Honolulu, Sarah Marie (Bender)
  Fagan of Silver spring, Md., Catherine Anne, Honolulu, Judith Lee,
  Watertown, Mass., and John Richard, Honolulu.  A second son, John Lee, died
  in 1957.  Also surviving are two sisters: Anna Bender and Marie Haning of
  Springs, Pa.  The funeral will be conducted at Parkview Mennonite Church in
  Harrisonburg, Va. Tuesday, Aug. 8 at 10 a.m., by the Revs. Owen Burkholder,
  A. Don Augsburger, and Edward Stoltzfus.  Friends will be received at the
  Kyger and Trobaugh Funeral Home in Harrisonburg Aug. 7 from 7:30-8:30
  p.m.  After the service, the body will be taken to Martinsburg, Pa., to the
  Bolger Funeral Home, for funeral service Aug. 8 from 7:30-8:30 p.m.  Burial
  in the Kauffman Cemetery near Curryville, Pa. Wednesday Aug. 9 at 11 a.m.
  
  Daily American, August 4, 1989
  
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