Obit: Bender, Harry (1889 - 1963)

 

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Surnames: Bender

 

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 09/26/1963

 

Bender, Harry (19 OCT 1889 - 3 SEP 1963)

 

Harry Bender, 73, principal of the Colby High School for 30 years prior to his retirement in 1952, died at 2:00 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, 1963 in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield, where he was taken during the night after suffering a heart attack.

 

Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Friday in the Colby Methodist Church.  The Rev. James Hagen officiated and burial was in the Colby Memorial Cemetery.

 

Mr. Bender was born Oct. 19, 1889, in Viola and attended grade school and high school there.  He received his bachelor degree in education at the then Central State College in Stevens Point, after having attended La Crosse State Teachers College.

 

He taught at West Salem for seven years before going to Colby in 1920.  He served as principal of the Colby High School for 30 years before retiring in 1952.  After retiring as principal he taught mathematics at the school until three years ago.

  

 

 


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