Born with the name Katherine, but preferred the use of Kate.
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Oroville Mercury Register (Oroville, California) 02 May 1938, Monday Page 6: Kate Bendle, Pioneer Teacher, Native of Bidwell Bar, Dies. Passes Away At Home Here; Started Career at 15 Years; Recalled Old Days. Miss Kate F. Bendle, who lived in Bidwell Bar when it was a thriving mining community and who possessed many important facts regarding the once famous gold camp, died Sunday.
Death came at her home at 2824 Orange avenue, where she lived with a sister. Miss Bendle suffered a stroke Wednesday night at her residence.
Early School Teacher. An early day school teacher, she began her teaching career at the age of 15 years. She taught for many years in schools of the county and La Porte. Among the schools at which she was teacher were Bidwell Bar, Fruitvale, Upham, Evansville, Berry Creek, Mountain House. He last school was at La Porte.
She had lived in Oroville since 1920 when members of the pioneer family sold their home at Bidwell Bar to the Feather River Pine Mills, which constructed its logging road through the old family place.
Born at Bidwell. Born, Nov. 8, 1855, near Bidwell Bar, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bendle. Her father had lived at Union Bar basin before opening at store at Bidwell Bar in the 50’s. The store – often mistakenly referred to by modern residents as the old Bidwell Bar jail – is the iron fronted building still standing.
Her father, who died in 1918, purchased the store – once on Bidwell Bar’s Main street – from Joe Gluckuff, who built it after the fire that swept Bidwell in about 1854.
Several years ago, in an interview with the Mercury, Miss Bendle said: “Mr. Gluckuff built the store with iron windows and iron doors at the front and back. For this reason many persons have thought it was a jail. Of course the old times know better.”
When her father operated the store most of the supplies were freighted from Marysville.
The store carried a wide assortment of general merchandise, including cooking utensils, miners picks and shovel and even coffin linings.
Two Sisters Survive. The store’s books, which Miss Bendle treasured, showed that a fifty pound sack of flour sold for $2.25 in 1861. A bar of soap brought 37 cents. Sugar was six pounds for $1. Neckties were luxuries. The books contain a notation showing that one was sold for $1.75.
Miss Bendle is survived by two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Bendle of Oroville, and Miss Irene Bendle of Pasadena and by five nieces and nephews, including Mrs. Eva Noel of Oroville.
Funeral services will be held at the family home at 2 p.m. tomorrow, with the Rev. Henry Stauffer of the First Congregational church officiating. Burial will be in Bidwell Bar cemetery. Rites will be in charge of Hamilton and Riley.
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Oroville Mercury Register (Oroville, California) 02 May 1938, Monday Page 6: Kate Bendle, Pioneer Teacher, Native of Bidwell Bar, Dies. Passes Away At Home Here; Started Career at 15 Years; Recalled Old Days. Miss Kate F. Bendle, who lived in Bidwell Bar when it was a thriving mining community and who possessed many important facts regarding the once famous gold camp, died Sunday.
Death came at her home at 2824 Orange avenue, where she lived with a sister. Miss Bendle suffered a stroke Wednesday night at her residence.
Early School Teacher. An early day school teacher, she began her teaching career at the age of 15 years. She taught for many years in schools of the county and La Porte. Among the schools at which she was teacher were Bidwell Bar, Fruitvale, Upham, Evansville, Berry Creek, Mountain House. He last school was at La Porte.
She had lived in Oroville since 1920 when members of the pioneer family sold their home at Bidwell Bar to the Feather River Pine Mills, which constructed its logging road through the old family place.
Born at Bidwell. Born, Nov. 8, 1855, near Bidwell Bar, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bendle. Her father had lived at Union Bar basin before opening at store at Bidwell Bar in the 50’s. The store – often mistakenly referred to by modern residents as the old Bidwell Bar jail – is the iron fronted building still standing.
Her father, who died in 1918, purchased the store – once on Bidwell Bar’s Main street – from Joe Gluckuff, who built it after the fire that swept Bidwell in about 1854.
Several years ago, in an interview with the Mercury, Miss Bendle said: “Mr. Gluckuff built the store with iron windows and iron doors at the front and back. For this reason many persons have thought it was a jail. Of course the old times know better.”
When her father operated the store most of the supplies were freighted from Marysville.
The store carried a wide assortment of general merchandise, including cooking utensils, miners picks and shovel and even coffin linings.
Two Sisters Survive. The store’s books, which Miss Bendle treasured, showed that a fifty pound sack of flour sold for $2.25 in 1861. A bar of soap brought 37 cents. Sugar was six pounds for $1. Neckties were luxuries. The books contain a notation showing that one was sold for $1.75.
Miss Bendle is survived by two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Bendle of Oroville, and Miss Irene Bendle of Pasadena and by five nieces and nephews, including Mrs. Eva Noel of Oroville.
Funeral services will be held at the family home at 2 p.m. tomorrow, with the Rev. Henry Stauffer of the First Congregational church officiating. Burial will be in Bidwell Bar cemetery. Rites will be in charge of Hamilton and Riley.
Born with the name Katherine, but preferred the use of Kate.
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Oroville Mercury Register (Oroville, California) 02 May 1938, Monday Page 6: Kate Bendle, Pioneer Teacher, Native of Bidwell Bar, Dies. Passes Away At Home Here; Started Career at 15 Years; Recalled Old Days. Miss Kate F. Bendle, who lived in Bidwell Bar when it was a thriving mining community and who possessed many important facts regarding the once famous gold camp, died Sunday.
Death came at her home at 2824 Orange avenue, where she lived with a sister. Miss Bendle suffered a stroke Wednesday night at her residence.
Early School Teacher. An early day school teacher, she began her teaching career at the age of 15 years. She taught for many years in schools of the county and La Porte. Among the schools at which she was teacher were Bidwell Bar, Fruitvale, Upham, Evansville, Berry Creek, Mountain House. He last school was at La Porte.
She had lived in Oroville since 1920 when members of the pioneer family sold their home at Bidwell Bar to the Feather River Pine Mills, which constructed its logging road through the old family place.
Born at Bidwell. Born, Nov. 8, 1855, near Bidwell Bar, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bendle. Her father had lived at Union Bar basin before opening at store at Bidwell Bar in the 50’s. The store – often mistakenly referred to by modern residents as the old Bidwell Bar jail – is the iron fronted building still standing.
Her father, who died in 1918, purchased the store – once on Bidwell Bar’s Main street – from Joe Gluckuff, who built it after the fire that swept Bidwell in about 1854.
Several years ago, in an interview with the Mercury, Miss Bendle said: “Mr. Gluckuff built the store with iron windows and iron doors at the front and back. For this reason many persons have thought it was a jail. Of course the old times know better.”
When her father operated the store most of the supplies were freighted from Marysville.
The store carried a wide assortment of general merchandise, including cooking utensils, miners picks and shovel and even coffin linings.
Two Sisters Survive. The store’s books, which Miss Bendle treasured, showed that a fifty pound sack of flour sold for $2.25 in 1861. A bar of soap brought 37 cents. Sugar was six pounds for $1. Neckties were luxuries. The books contain a notation showing that one was sold for $1.75.
Miss Bendle is survived by two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Bendle of Oroville, and Miss Irene Bendle of Pasadena and by five nieces and nephews, including Mrs. Eva Noel of Oroville.
Funeral services will be held at the family home at 2 p.m. tomorrow, with the Rev. Henry Stauffer of the First Congregational church officiating. Burial will be in Bidwell Bar cemetery. Rites will be in charge of Hamilton and Riley.
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Oroville Mercury Register (Oroville, California) 02 May 1938, Monday Page 6: Kate Bendle, Pioneer Teacher, Native of Bidwell Bar, Dies. Passes Away At Home Here; Started Career at 15 Years; Recalled Old Days. Miss Kate F. Bendle, who lived in Bidwell Bar when it was a thriving mining community and who possessed many important facts regarding the once famous gold camp, died Sunday.
Death came at her home at 2824 Orange avenue, where she lived with a sister. Miss Bendle suffered a stroke Wednesday night at her residence.
Early School Teacher. An early day school teacher, she began her teaching career at the age of 15 years. She taught for many years in schools of the county and La Porte. Among the schools at which she was teacher were Bidwell Bar, Fruitvale, Upham, Evansville, Berry Creek, Mountain House. He last school was at La Porte.
She had lived in Oroville since 1920 when members of the pioneer family sold their home at Bidwell Bar to the Feather River Pine Mills, which constructed its logging road through the old family place.
Born at Bidwell. Born, Nov. 8, 1855, near Bidwell Bar, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bendle. Her father had lived at Union Bar basin before opening at store at Bidwell Bar in the 50’s. The store – often mistakenly referred to by modern residents as the old Bidwell Bar jail – is the iron fronted building still standing.
Her father, who died in 1918, purchased the store – once on Bidwell Bar’s Main street – from Joe Gluckuff, who built it after the fire that swept Bidwell in about 1854.
Several years ago, in an interview with the Mercury, Miss Bendle said: “Mr. Gluckuff built the store with iron windows and iron doors at the front and back. For this reason many persons have thought it was a jail. Of course the old times know better.”
When her father operated the store most of the supplies were freighted from Marysville.
The store carried a wide assortment of general merchandise, including cooking utensils, miners picks and shovel and even coffin linings.
Two Sisters Survive. The store’s books, which Miss Bendle treasured, showed that a fifty pound sack of flour sold for $2.25 in 1861. A bar of soap brought 37 cents. Sugar was six pounds for $1. Neckties were luxuries. The books contain a notation showing that one was sold for $1.75.
Miss Bendle is survived by two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Bendle of Oroville, and Miss Irene Bendle of Pasadena and by five nieces and nephews, including Mrs. Eva Noel of Oroville.
Funeral services will be held at the family home at 2 p.m. tomorrow, with the Rev. Henry Stauffer of the First Congregational church officiating. Burial will be in Bidwell Bar cemetery. Rites will be in charge of Hamilton and Riley.
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