OBIT: Lewis BENDER, 1931, native of Somerset County, PA

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LEWIS BENDER

  Lewis Bender was born in Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, Pa., Nov. 25, 
1900, and died in the Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, Md., Aug. 25, 1931, at the 
age of 30 years and 9 months.  He was married to Anna J. Yoder, of near 
Meyersdale, Pa., Aug. 14, 1924.  To this union were born one son and two 
daughters, who with the bereaved widow, survive.
  Early in life he professed faith in Christ and became a member of the Amish 
Mennonite Church, in which communion he remained a consistent member until 
death.  He was not of a very strong constitution, physically, and having 
acquired a good education he taught school a number of terms in charge of the 
public school at the A.M. Children's Home near Grantsville.  Later he purchased 
a home near Salisbury, Pa., and engaged in farming until appointed assistant 
superintendent of the Home above named, in June 1928.  The following year he was 
appointed superintendent of the home, which position he filled to the time of 
his death, having been again reappointed at the last meeting of the trustees of 
the Home during the current year.
  On the evening of Sunday, Aug. 9, he suddenly became ill; later the attending 
physician pronounced his illness influenza, but as his illness progressed it was 
diagnosed as typhoid fever.  His condition taking a quick turn for the worse, 
with seeming other developments and complications, he was taken to the Memorial 
Hospital to be given the advantageous benefit of better facilities and 
equipment.  All means and efforts proved futile.
  The funeral was held at Maple Glen near Grantsville, August 28.  Services at 
the A.M.C. Home were conducted by J. B. Miller; in the meeting house by J. D. 
Yoder, Belleville, Pa., by J. B. Miller in German and by Shem Peachey in 
English.  Interment was made in the Oak Dale Cemetery near Salisbury, Pa.
  The funeral was very largely attended, approximately six hundred people being 
present.

Meyersdale Republican, September 3, 1931