NAPPANEE – Floyd Samuel Bender, 74, of 5117 Beech Road, Bremen, died at 5:08 a.m. Sept. 3, 2011, in St. Joseph Medical Center, South Bend, where he was a patient since Friday.
He was born May 23, 1937, in Goshen, to Daniel D. and Sylvia Schmucker Bender. On April 17, 1958, in Nappanee, he married Anna Mae Borkholder, who survives.
Also surviving are five daughters, including Sharon (and spouse Steve) Yoder, Barbara (and spouse Devon) Miller and Susan (and spouse Atlee) Yutzy, all of Nappanee; three sons, including Mark (and spouse Nancy) Bender and Merle (and spouse Vonda) Bender, all of Nappanee; 37 grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; a brother; and five sisters, including Dorothy Borkholder, Marie (and spouse Mahlon) Hostetler and Esther Bender, all of Nappanee. He was preceded in death by a daughter.
Services were at 9:30 a.m. today at the Harley Miller residence, 1486 E. 5th Road, Bremen, with Bishop John Plank and the Home Ministry of the Old Order Amish Church officiating. Burial was in Cedar Road Amish Cemetery.
