Mabel Bender
1962 - 1972 (9 years)
Generation: 1
1. Mabel Bender was born on 28 Mar 1962 in Montmorenci, Tippecanoe County, Indiana; died on 30 Jan 1972 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana; was buried on 1 Feb 1972 in Tippecanoe Memory Gardens, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Notes:
Mabel B. Bender Boyce, died at 6 PM Sunday, Jan. 30, 1972, in St. Elizabeth Hospital, where she had been a patient since Thursday. Born and reared near Montmorenci, she had lived in Lafayette most of her life. In 1940, she married Cecil G. Boyce, at Greenville, OH. He survives and is a retired machinist from Fairfield Mfg. Co.
Mrs. Boyce was a graduate of Montmorenci High School and attended Indiana State Teachers College. She was a grade school teacher for 41 years. She taught at Stockwell and retired from Crouch Elementary, where she taught most of her career. She was a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church; Order of Eastern Star, Hope Chapter 5; Bethany Shrine 8; Past Royal Matron of Robert Prass Memorial Court 13 of Ameranth; Noble Grand Elect of Triumph Rebekah Lodge 191; past president of Merou Grotto Auxiliary, and past president of Beta Kappa Chapter of Lambda Tau Delta sorority.
Surviving with her husband are three sisters, Esther (Mrs. Russell B.) Boothroyd, Mrs. Elsie B. Johnson, and Miss A. Marie Bender; a brother, Elmer J. "Bud" Bender; and two nephews, A. Darryl Johnson and Robert L. Boothroyd, all of Lafayette.
--Lafayette Journal & Courier - Mon 1/31/1972, page 4
Name:
daughter of Jacob Michael Bender and Anna Sewille F. Heischman
Buried:
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Main Chapel Center, Section 3, Level 2, Crypt 262
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Main Chapel Center, Section 3, Level 2, Crypt 262Mabel married Cecil George Boyce in 1940. Cecil (son of John W. Boyce and Ida May Clifton) was born on 13 Aug 1905 in Cissna Park, Iroquois County, Illinois; died on 2 May 1975 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana; was buried on 5 May 1975 in Tippecanoe Memory Gardens, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]