Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Mexia Daily News
May 07, 2008

Obituaries for 05-07

Allen Woodruff Bendy

Funeral services for Allen Woodruff Bendy, 90, longtime resident of Teague will
be Friday, May 9, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church of 
Teague. Rev. Tyrus C. Petty, Jr., Rev. J. Stanley Hagadone and Rev. Jeff Powers
will officiate with interment to follow in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Visitation with the family will be 5 – 7 p.m. Thursday night at the First United
Methodist Church in Teague.

Allen Woodruff Bendy was born on December 16, 1917, the second of three children
of Neyland Woodruff Bendy and Sadie Thatcher Bendy. His father had founded the
clothing store known as N. W. Bendy Company in Teague in or around 1930, and in
Allen’s early adult life, he went to work for the store, later became a partner
with his father in the business, and ultimately became the sole owner, running 
the business until his retirement in about 1980. Many will remember that Bendy’s
was located on the current site of Citizen’s National Bank.

Allen married Catherine Marguerite Cox on the day before his twenty-first
birthday in 1938. One child, Donald Neyland, was born of that marriage in 1943. 
Mog, as she was known by friends and acquaintances alike, was a stay at home 
mother until Don started school, at which time she began working in the store 
and continued to do so until it was sold when Allen decided to retire.

In his early adult and middle years, Allen was extremely involved in various 
community organizations and endeavors. In his retirement years, however, his 
main love was fishing, which was an activity that he and Mog enjoyed together.

Allen died on May 6, 2008, in the Haven Nursing Home in Mexia, Texas, where he
had continuously resided since a serious automobile accident in 2001. He was 
preceded in death in 2002 by Mog, his loving wife of 63 years. He is survived
by his son Don, an attorney in Eagle Lake, Texas, and Don’s wife Sandy; by 
grandson Kevin Allen Bendy and wife Gretchen, and their children, Avery and 
Blake of Austin, Texas; by Keith David Bendy and wife Cheryl, and their 
expected daughter Charlotte, of Austin, Texas; and by the staff at Haven 
Hursing Home in Mexia, who treated Allen more as a family member than as a 
resident. He is also survived by his sister, Margaret Bendy Tresch and her
husband Bob, of Houston, Texas. In addition to his wife, Allen was preceded in
death by his parents and by his brother, Harry.

Allen will be missed by those who loved him.

Memorials may be made to the charity of choice.