Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Mexia Daily News
February 19, 2002

Marguerite Bendy

TEAGUE - Funeral services for Mrs. Marguerite Cox Bendy, 84, of Teague, will be
conducted Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock in First United Methodist Church; 
officiating will be the Rev. Charles Jordan, pastor. Burial will be in Greenwood
Cemetery, under direction of Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home of Teague.

Mrs. Bendy, a longtime resident of Teague, graduated from Mexia High School and 
attended Westminster College in Tehuacana. She and her husband were owners of 
the N.W. Bendy Company and dry goods store in Teague.

She was a member of First United Methodist Church, to which family requests 
Memorials be made. Mrs. Bendy, born in Mexia on March 28, 1917, died Sunday
evening in Mexia. She was preceded in death by her parents, Luther and Maude 
Eubanks Cox; by a sister, Hazel Cox Earl, and by six brothers, Loman Cox, Ray 
Cox, Hobart Cox, Butch Cox, Donald Cox and Ty Cox.

Surviving are her husband, Allen Bendy of Teague, to whom she was married on 
Dec. 15, 1938; a son and daughter-in-law, Donald N. and Sandy Bendy of Eagle
Lake; two grandsons, Kevin A. Bendy and wife Gretchen, and Keith D. Bendy; and
a great-granddaughter, Avery Dean Bendy.