GEORGE BENDER
KITTITAS CO., WA

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Contributed by:  Shelli Steedman 4/20/2007

Funeral services were held this afternoon for George W. Bender, 41, who died
Friday [May 3, 1957] from injuries sustained when a falling tree struck him as
he was bucking logs some distance away.  The accident occurred about noon
Friday in the Wilson Creek area where Bender worked as a sawyer for Tucker &
Jones of Selah, logging contractors for Cascade Lumber Co.

Conducting the services was Rev. Laurence M. Arksey.  Burial was in the IOOF
Cemetery.  Born at Ellensburg, May 20, 1915, Bender was graduated from
Ellensburg High School in 1932.  He was married at Wenatchee December 9, 1944,
to Alice Lenz.

Prior to his employment as a logger Bender had operated a hay baling crew of
Bender Bros. For seven years.  Surviving besides his wife are one son, George
Walter, Jr., 9; three daughters, Susan, 11; Mary, 5, and Kathy 4; his mother,
Mrs. Maria Bender, Ellensburg; four brothers, Bernard, Louis, Russell and
Harrell Bender, all of Ellensburg, and a sister Mrs. Warren (Berniece) Kidder,
Kittitas.