Eulaine M. Benda

Eulaine M. Benda

April 5, 1920 - March 3, 2014

OBERLIN, Kansas -- Eulaine M. Benda, 93, died Monday (March 3, 2014), at Decatur County Good Samaritan Society in Oberlin.

She was born April 5, 1920, in rural Herndon, Kansas, to August and Olive Marie (Fellman) Erikson. She attended Linda grade school in rural Rawlins County and graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1937.

She married Wesley Gale Benda on June 12, 1944, in Herndon.

She was a teacher and homemaker.

She was a member of Herndon Covenant Church, Herndon Covenant Women, Gideons Auxiliary, Hello There Hobby Club.

She was preceded in death by her parents: August and Olive Marie Erikson; husband, Wesley G. Benda, brothers, Kermit and Cordette Erikson; sisters, Fern Wenger and Eula Waldo; son-in-law, Mitch Messerly and infant grandson, Nicolas Maresch.

Survivors include children, Gerald Benda and wife, Patti of Ludell, Kansas, Connie Smith and husband, Bob, of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Leanne Pike and husband, Losson of Ashland, Kansas, Shirley Maresch and husband, Daryl of Nekoma, Kansas, Beverly Messerly of Sublette, Kansas and Barbara Olson and husband, Mark of Hoxie, Kansas; sisters-in-law, Esther Noren of Oberlin and Ida Marie Erickson and husband, David of Green Valley, Arizona; 14 grandchildren and 11 great- grandchildren.

Services are Saturday, March 8, 2014, at Herndon Covenant Church at 10:30 a.m. with the Rev. Keith Reuther officiating. Interment is at the Herndon Covenant Cemetery.

Visitation is Friday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Pauls Funeral Home in Oberlin and Saturday, from 8 a.m. until service time, at Herndon Covenant Church.

Memorials may be given to Herndon Covenant Church and Decatur County Good Samariatan Society.

Pauls Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.