Elsie Ella Bender

Elsie Ella Bender

Elsie Ella (Renner) Bender, 83, of Havre died April 27, 2011, from multiple myeloma.

Services will be Friday, May 6, at 2:30 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Havre, followed by a lunch at the Eagles Club. Burial will be at Manchester Cemetery in Great Falls at 2 p.m.

Elsie was born Jan. 9, 1928, in Fox Valley, Saskachewan, to Emil and Annie Renner. She finished school through the 12th grade in Canada. She married Ivol M. Bender in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in 1945, and they moved to Great Falls in 1946, then Havre in 1966. They had six children. She became a U.S. citizen Dec...