I Dies. 4 Hurt
In Rod Crash
Auto Rams Truck
On Navarre Ave.
Elstner A. Bender, 38, Oal
Harbor, was killed last nigh
when his automobile rammed ;
truck on Navarre Ave., fivt
miles east of Toledo, anc
knocked it in front of a seconc
car. Four Toledo residents wen
injured in the crash at 6:25 p.m.
Mr. Bender's body was pinnec
beneath the wreckage of his au
tomobile. George Bafoka anc
Robert E. Karsmizki of the statt
highway patrol reported.
Car Strikes Truck
Mr. Bender's eastbound ca;
hit the truck when it stopped t(
make a turn into a farm lane
the patrolmen said. As the trucl
hurtled acroi- the highway i
was struck by the car of Free
Stoiber, 62, of 488 Shasta Dr.
A passenger in Mr. Stoiber's
car, Claude Russell, 53, of 2ifi
Broadway, was admitted to St.
Vincent's Hospital with chest in¬
juries. Treated in St. Vincent's
Hospital for lesser injuries were
Mr. Stoiber; Albert Ferris, 40
RD 6, Toledo, tb.2 driver of the
truck, and Mr. Ferris's wife.
Lucille, 38.
Mr. Bender, on a business trip
to Toledo when the accident hap¬
pened, was employed for the
last .three years as a salesman
for the Stevens Motor Sales, Oak
Harbor.
Served In Navy
A native of Fremont, he
served in the U.S. Navy 'from
1932 to 1936, then was employed
as a machinist by the Herbrand
Division of the Bingham-Her-
hrand Co. in Fremont. With his
family he moved to Oak Harbor
in 1946, and for three years was
co-owner of the B&F Shoe Store
there. He then joined the
Stevens agency.
Surviving are his wife, the
former Marjorie^ Norton, Fre¬
mont, whom he married in 1936;
daughters, Lodema, 13; Sabra
Lue, 9, and Martha Jean, 5; par¬
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ben¬
der, Fremont; brothers. Dale,
Gibsonburg, and Kermit, Fre¬
mont, and a sister, Mrs. Donald
Fought, Oak Harbor.
"""Services will be Saturday at
1:30 p.m. in the Robinson Mor¬
tuary, Oak Harbor, and at 2 p.m.
in St. John's Evangelical Lu¬
theran Church, with Dr. B. F.
Brandt and the Rev. H. F.'Heid-
man, pastors, officiating. Burial
will be in Roose Cemetery, south
of Oak Harbor.
