Irma M. Bender

IRMA BENDER MUSCATINE, Iowa - Irma M. Bender, 91, of Muscatine, died Sunday, November 28, 2004, at Unity Hospital. Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, December 2, 2004, at Zion Lutheran Church, 517 Sycamore Street. Reverend Paul Ostrem will officiate. Casket Bearers will be Robert Wendlandt, Thomas Bender, Ty Bender, John Alex Bender, Jason Wagner, and Chad Minch. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation: 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, December 1, 2004, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Zion Lutheran Church. Irma was born on July 21, 1913, in Muscatine, the daughter of Frank and Pauline Friedrich Wendlandt. She married Alex Bender on September 30, 1934, in Muscatine. She worked as the assistant clerk in the Muscatine City Clerk's Office. Irma was a life member of the Zion Lutheran Church and was an outstanding quilter. Survivors include one son, John R. Bender and wife, Christy, of Sherrard, Illinois; one daughter, Kathy M. Wagner of Muscatine; five grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; one nephew, Robert F. Wendlandt of Muscatine; and one niece, Marie Amos of Garland, Texas. She was preced...[more]

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in death by her parents, her husband in 1977, and two brothers, William and Robert Wendlandt.