Source: Aurora (1921) Ad:

GEO. N. BENDER
Furniture Dealer
Funeral Director
Victrolas and Victor Records
BEST EQUIPMENT   BEST SERVICE    BOTH PHONES

Source: Aurora (1927) Ad:

GEO. N.  BENDER & SON
FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING

"Best equipment, years of experience, and a desire to do good work."

1926 marked the fortieth anniversary of the Bender Furniture and Undertaking establishment.

The business was first organized by Stewart & Ellwood in 1886. Later it was purchased by J.H. Bonner & Sons who held Mr. Bender in their employment for thirteen years. In 1917 Mr. Bender purchased the concern from them. Recently Mr. Bender has taken as a partner in the concern his son, Todd, who is a student at M.C. and whom we all know.

The business has always been operated from the furniture store on East Main Street until recently when Mr. Bender made a great improvement in the form of a new Funeral Home on West Main Street.

Mr. Bender is one of our prominent business men to whom we own much for the support which he has given Manchester College and Aurora.

Bender Funeral Home in 1929

Source: Notarized Certificate of Business, Wabash County Partnership Book 1 (1941-1985), p. 216, April 17, 1951:

George N. Bender & Son
Funeral Directors
North Manchester, Indiana
Owners:
Nina P. Bender and Todd B. Bender, North Manchester, Indiana

For more history and photos, click here for Mike McKee's article, "A History of Undertaking in North Manchester."