Horace Bolender, Milan resident, succumbs at 81
Horace "Vern" Bolender, 81, of 211 E. 5th St., Milan, died at Moline Public Hospital yesterday morning following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Chapel of Virtues at Moline Gospel Temple. Dr. Charles L. Hollis pastor, will officiate, and burial will be at 9 a.m. Monday at the National Cemetery, Rock Island Arsenal. Rock Island County Barracks No. 410 will conduct military services at the gravesite. Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Esterdahl Mortuary, Moline.
Memorials may be sent to the Moline Gospel Temple.
Mr. Bolender was born Feb. 19, 1895, in Bryant, Ill., the son of James Calvin and Euna Mae Gray Bolender.
He was a self-employed barber at the former Snip and Clip barber shop, Rock Island, for 50 years, last working in 1960.
He was an Army veteran of World War I; a 30-year member of the Barber Union, Local 113; a charter member of the Gospel Temple, and a former member of Barracks 410.
He married Beulah Sewell July 21, 1920, in Rock Island.
Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Dora Mae Reese, Moline, Mrs. Ruth Evelyn Rudd, Phoenix, Ariz.; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Floyd and Jesse, both of Rock Island, and a sister, Mrs. Helen Mix, Geneseo. he was preceded in death by a son, a sister, two stepsisters and a stepbrother.
Contributor: Pam (47140371)
Horace Bolender, Milan resident, succumbs at 81
Horace "Vern" Bolender, 81, of 211 E. 5th St., Milan, died at Moline Public Hospital yesterday morning following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Chapel of Virtues at Moline Gospel Temple. Dr. Charles L. Hollis pastor, will officiate, and burial will be at 9 a.m. Monday at the National Cemetery, Rock Island Arsenal. Rock Island County Barracks No. 410 will conduct military services at the gravesite. Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Esterdahl Mortuary, Moline.
Memorials may be sent to the Moline Gospel Temple.
Mr. Bolender was born Feb. 19, 1895, in Bryant, Ill., the son of James Calvin and Euna Mae Gray Bolender.
He was a self-employed barber at the former Snip and Clip barber shop, Rock Island, for 50 years, last working in 1960.
He was an Army veteran of World War I; a 30-year member of the Barber Union, Local 113; a charter member of the Gospel Temple, and a former member of Barracks 410.
He married Beulah Sewell July 21, 1920, in Rock Island.
Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Dora Mae Reese, Moline, Mrs. Ruth Evelyn Rudd, Phoenix, Ariz.; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Floyd and Jesse, both of Rock Island, and a sister, Mrs. Helen Mix, Geneseo. he was preceded in death by a son, a sister, two stepsisters and a stepbrother.
Contributor: Pam (47140371)
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