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J. Arthur Bolender

Birth
Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
7 Jul 1967 (aged 80)
Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Hazleton Standard Speaker; Saturday, July 8, 1967:
J. Arthur Bolender, 80, of 7 Reynolds street, Kingston, died at 6 a.m. yesterday at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital where he had been a patient one month. Born in Hazleton, October 1, 1886, he spent most of his life in Wilkes-Barre and Kingston. Prior to his retirement in 1951, he was employed as Secretary of the Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce 30 years. He was an honorary life member of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce Executives, secretary of the Wilkes-Barre Rotary Club for 30 years, and a member of the Wyoming Valley Motor Club, Lodge 64, F. and A.M., Shekinah Royal Arch Chapter 182, Irem Temple Shrine, and Woodmen of the World.

His wife, the former Grace Garner, of Hazleton, died May 26, 1950. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. H. E. Lundy and Mrs. Philip Seager, this city; a nephew and two nieces.

The funeral will be held from Snowdon Funeral Home, 420 Wyoming avenue, Kingston, on Monday at 11 a.m. Rev. W. Herbert Sugden, pastor emeritus of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre, will officiate. Interment will be in Vine Street Cemetery, this city. Friends may call Sunday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
No grave stone
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Hazleton Standard Speaker; Saturday, July 8, 1967:
J. Arthur Bolender, 80, of 7 Reynolds street, Kingston, died at 6 a.m. yesterday at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital where he had been a patient one month. Born in Hazleton, October 1, 1886, he spent most of his life in Wilkes-Barre and Kingston. Prior to his retirement in 1951, he was employed as Secretary of the Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce 30 years. He was an honorary life member of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce Executives, secretary of the Wilkes-Barre Rotary Club for 30 years, and a member of the Wyoming Valley Motor Club, Lodge 64, F. and A.M., Shekinah Royal Arch Chapter 182, Irem Temple Shrine, and Woodmen of the World.

His wife, the former Grace Garner, of Hazleton, died May 26, 1950. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. H. E. Lundy and Mrs. Philip Seager, this city; a nephew and two nieces.

The funeral will be held from Snowdon Funeral Home, 420 Wyoming avenue, Kingston, on Monday at 11 a.m. Rev. W. Herbert Sugden, pastor emeritus of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre, will officiate. Interment will be in Vine Street Cemetery, this city. Friends may call Sunday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.


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