Richard was my dear cousin, mentor and friend: Roberta Frances Bobbi Jenkins
Richard Allen Pence On November 25, 2009, of Fairfax City, VA.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Lillian Ellyn Pence; sons, Todd M. of Fairfax City and Robert C. Pence of Raleigh, NC; daughter and son-in-law, Laura L. and Matthew Larson; and two grandchildren, Molly and Calvin Larson of Allenspark, CO.
A celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, January 9, 2010, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the NRECA Conference Center, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22203.
Interment:
Wayside Cemetery
Frederick
Brown County
South Dakota, USA
Memorial Contributions may be sent to the Frederick HS Alumni Association, Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 544, Frederick, SD 57441.
Published in The Washington Post on Jan. 3, 2010
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UpFront with NGS 04 December 2009
This is the blog for the National Genealogical Society. It publishes both society news and articles of general interest to its membership.
Richard Pence, 1932-2009
Richard Pence was a long-time member of NGS who contributed his many talents to the organization, especially in the early days of computer genealogy. We are saddened to learn of his recent death. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 9, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Conference Center located at 4301 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22203. The following obituary was contributed by his family.
Richard A. Pence, an editor and publications advisor whose hobby of tracking his ancestors evolved into pioneering work in the use of computers in genealogical research, died November 25 in Fairfax,Virginia. He was 77.
Pence's work in genealogy, once a side-line, became a full-time effort in 2000 when he retired from his 39-year career in communications work for rural electric cooperatives on the state and national levels.
Pence's principal genealogical contributions stemmed from his interest in the Pence surname. He amassed several large databases of information on those with this surname, some of which are available to researchers through a web site he created and maintained Pence Family History
In addition to two books of Pence family history, he was co-author in 1985 of Computer Genealogy, the first book covering this topic. In that year, he was also editor of The Next Greatest Thing, an award-winning photo history of the first 50 years of rural electrification in the United States.
In 1982, he was among the founders of a computer interest group within the National Genealogical Society, and he received the Distinguished Service Award and an Award of Merit from the society for his pioneering work in computer genealogy. In 2002, he was among the initial inductees into the Genealogy Technology Pioneer Hall of Fame by GenTech, an organization of genealogists interested in computer applications.
Pence authored numerous how-to articles on genealogy and computers, many of which can be found on the internet, and he was a featured speaker on this topic at several national genealogy conferences. He was especially fond of speaking engagements that allowed him to relate humorous incidents both with computers and life in general.
Following service in the U.S. Navy in 1950-1951 and graduation from South Dakota State University in 1955, Pence began his journalism career with brief stints at weekly newspapers in Britton, South Dakota and Tracy, Minnesota. He then completed course work for a master's degree in journalism from Iowa State University followed by a move to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was a publications editor at North Carolina State University.
He began his career in the rural electrification program in 1961 as editor of The Carolina Farmer (now Carolina Country) a monthly magazine published by the statewide association of North Carolina rural electric cooperatives. In 1967 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become editor of the Rural Electric Newsletter for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA).
Pence received many awards for his journalistic and genealogical efforts and has authored several works, including Two Longs and a Short, a personal remembrance of growing up in a small South Dakota town. Proceeds from the sale of this book have gone to support college scholarships for Frederick, South Dakota High School graduates.
During his career with NRECA, Pence also served as editor of Rural Electrification Magazine and as head of the association's publications department. He spent the latter part of his career at NRECA as a communications consultant specializing in assisting local electric cooperatives with pressing public and member relations problems, including threats of sell-outs. In addition to on-site assistance, he developed and conducted training sessions to guide local cooperatives in building sound public and member relations policies and programs. For the past several years he wrote a monthly column featuring historical flashbacks for RE Magazine.
Pence was active in numerous professional, cooperative and rural organizations and was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the National Food and Energy Council (Columbia, Missouri). He won the 1961 George W. Haggard Memorial Journalism Award, conferred by NRECA yearly to the editor of the statewide publication (Carolina Farmer) for presenting the most lucid, forthright and effective presentation of issues advancing the objectives of electric cooperatives.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Ellyn (Hutto) Pence, a native of Jackson, Mississippi, their three children, Todd of Fairfax, Virginia; Robert of Raleigh, North Carolina and Laura Pence Larson, son-in-law Matthew Larson of Allenspark, Colorado, and two grandchildren, Molly Bellou Larson and Calvin Pence Larson.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Monroe Pence and Clarice Ethelyn (Stanley) Pence of Frederick, a brother, Donald and a sister, Margie Ann (Pence) Buntrock (Mrs. Ralph Buntrock).
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1884-1971 Pence Family History
Richard Pence died on Wendesday, November 25th, 2009 following a lengthy illness. His research is now located at the Allen County Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
This web page will remain active as a source for continuing research.
This site is dedicated to the collection and dissemination of information about the Pence Families of America
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Leaves of Gas
Pulaski County Historical Society – New Web Site Pulaski County Historical Society – New Web Site
It saddens me to report the passing of Dick Pence. He died of a heart attack on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 and passed away three days later, Wednesday the 25th.
Dick was very helpful to me, and to the Stray Leaves community, in sorting through the Pence families who are related to the James, more socially than as kin (actually my DNA test results show we are related to Jesse James - Bobbi).
Dick's biography appears on his Pence family web site
Richard Allen (Dick) Pence is known as one of the pioneers of computer genealogy. He was among the first to see the value of personal computers for genealogical record keeping and began organizing his records with one of the earliest of these machines in 1978.
He has written about using computers for genealogy for a wide variety of publications and spoken on this and other genealogical topic before national, state and local genealogical groups.
In 1982 he helped organize the National Genealogical Society's Computer Interest Group (NGS/CIG) and he was for several years editor of the group's newsletter. He was instrumental in helping the CIG start an electronic bulletin board and is a former sysop of the NGS/CIG BBS. He was moderator of two genealogy-related electronic message exchanges on the FidoNet amateur BBS network, which at its height of their popularity – before the advent of widespread Internet access – involved well over a thousand BBSs worldwide. In the early 1990s the message flow in one of these, the Genealogy Conference, often reached 700 a day.
The National Genealogical Society presented him its Award of Merit for his work in computer and on-line genealogy at its Conference in the States in Richmond, Va., in May of 1999. He previously had been a recipient of the Society's Distinguished Service Award (1986). In 2001, he was among the first group of "pioneers" honored by induction into the Genealogy Technology Hall of Fame by GenTech, an organization dedicated to effective use of technology in genealogical research and record keeping.
He has written for the National Genealogical Society Quarterly and the society's Newsletter. He was co-author, with Paul Andereck, of Computer Genealogy, published by Ancestry, Inc., Salt Lake City, in 1985, and was the editor in 1991 of the revised edition of this widely used guide. He also has been a contributor to Ancestry's Genealogical Computing as well as the NGS/CIG newsletter.
After moving to the Washington, DC, area in 1967, Pence began actively pursuing his life-long interest in genealogy, with his primary interest being in the Pence family name. While amassing a database of some 12,000 pre-1920 U.S. Pences, he has published two volumes of A Guide to the Pence Families of America. He currently is working on a definitive compilation of his own branch of the Pence family.
In 1977 and 1980, his six-part series for beginners in genealogy, "Searching Your Family Tree," was syndicated to some 150 newspapers and magazines in the U.S.
Pence is a native of South Dakota and a journalism graduate of South Dakota State University, Brookings, and was a weekly newspaperman in South Dakota and Minnesota. He studied technical journalism in the graduate school at Iowa State University, Ames, for three years and was a technical publications editor there and at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, before entering the association publications field in 1961, where he has served as editor of a number of publications. He is retired as communications counsel for the Arlington, Va.-based National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, where he was a nationally recognized authority in member and public relations projects and political action programs relating to membership organizations. He has been both a consultant and instructor on these topics throughout the nation.
In 1984, he edited The Next Greatest Thing, an extensive photo history of the first 50 years of rural electrification in the United States. More than 57,000 copies of this 256-page hard-cover book are now in print and it received a "Gold Circle" award in 1985 as the outstanding one-time association publication from the American Society of Association Executives.
He has been a frequent after-dinner speaker at meetings of rural people, where he is noted for his stories about small-town and country America. His latest book is a collection of these and other stories, Two Longs and a Short and Other Tales of the Old West, some of which have previously appeared in publications such as Country and Reminisce.
Pence and his wife, the former Lillian Llewellyn (Ellyn) Hutto, a native of Jackson, MS, and a retired general music teacher, live in the city of Fairfax, Va. Their children: Todd Monroe, a teacher in the Fairfax County schools, is a journalism and education graduate of West Virginia University and also has been a graduate student in English literature there; Robert Chandler is a cinema production graduate of Ithaca College (NY) and is currently working at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC; and Laura Llewellyn received her degree in political science at North Carolina State and lives in Lyons, Colorado, with her husband, Matthew Calvin (Matt) Larson, and their daughter Molly Bellou Larson (born in 2004). Laura works at Planet Bluegrass, an organization which promotes bluegrass and folk music festivals, including the noted one at Telluride each summer.
A memorial service held January, 2010
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Stewart Bell Jr. Archives Room
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society
P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041, fax (540) 722-4769
[email protected] (e-mail)
www.handleyregional.org
Richard Allen Pence Collection
567 THL
Scope and Content: This collection is made up of three booklets on the Pence family written by Richard Allen Pence. The three booklets are entitled: "A Guide to the Pence Families of America," Parts I and II (August and Shenandoah Cos., VA) and "A Guide to the Pence Families of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia," Part III (Shenandoah Co., VA). (1 box) Last updated 02/2011.
Biographical/Historical: Family history of the Pence families of the Shenandoah Valley, the Pence descendants of Conrad Pence, George Philip Pence, Nicolas Pence, and guides to the Pence families of America.
Bibliography: Notes from the collection.
Cite As: Richard Allen Pence Collection, 567 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.
Box 1
A Guide to the Pence Families of America, Part I: Jacob and Valentine Pence of Augusta (Rockingham) County, Virginia, including descendants in Ohio and West, by Richard Allen Pence, 1982, 1 volume, 129 pages, printed
A Guide to the Pence Families of America, Part II: Jacob, Lewis, and Henry Pence of Shenandoah (Page) County, Virginia and Champaign County, Ohio, by Richard Allen Pence, 1982, 1 volume, 159 pages, printed
A Guide to the Pence Families of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: The Pence descendants of Conrad Pence, George Philip Pence, Nicholas Pence, of Shenandoah County, Virginia, by Richard Allen Pence, December 1990, excerpt, 96 pages, printed
BIO: Photo provided by: Roberta Frances Bobbi Jenkins
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Richard Allen Pence On November 25, 2009, of Fairfax City, VA.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Lillian Ellyn Pence; sons, Todd M. of Fairfax City and Robert C. Pence of Raleigh, NC; daughter and son-in-law, Laura L. and Matthew Larson; and two grandchildren, Molly and Calvin Larson of Allenspark, CO.
A celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, January 9, 2010, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the NRECA Conference Center, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22203.
Interment:
Wayside Cemetery
Frederick
Brown County
South Dakota, USA
Memorial Contributions may be sent to the Frederick HS Alumni Association, Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 544, Frederick, SD 57441.
Published in The Washington Post on Jan. 3, 2010
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UpFront with NGS 04 December 2009
This is the blog for the National Genealogical Society. It publishes both society news and articles of general interest to its membership.
Richard Pence, 1932-2009
Richard Pence was a long-time member of NGS who contributed his many talents to the organization, especially in the early days of computer genealogy. We are saddened to learn of his recent death. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 9, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Conference Center located at 4301 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22203. The following obituary was contributed by his family.
Richard A. Pence, an editor and publications advisor whose hobby of tracking his ancestors evolved into pioneering work in the use of computers in genealogical research, died November 25 in Fairfax,Virginia. He was 77.
Pence's work in genealogy, once a side-line, became a full-time effort in 2000 when he retired from his 39-year career in communications work for rural electric cooperatives on the state and national levels.
Pence's principal genealogical contributions stemmed from his interest in the Pence surname. He amassed several large databases of information on those with this surname, some of which are available to researchers through a web site he created and maintained Pence Family History
In addition to two books of Pence family history, he was co-author in 1985 of Computer Genealogy, the first book covering this topic. In that year, he was also editor of The Next Greatest Thing, an award-winning photo history of the first 50 years of rural electrification in the United States.
In 1982, he was among the founders of a computer interest group within the National Genealogical Society, and he received the Distinguished Service Award and an Award of Merit from the society for his pioneering work in computer genealogy. In 2002, he was among the initial inductees into the Genealogy Technology Pioneer Hall of Fame by GenTech, an organization of genealogists interested in computer applications.
Pence authored numerous how-to articles on genealogy and computers, many of which can be found on the internet, and he was a featured speaker on this topic at several national genealogy conferences. He was especially fond of speaking engagements that allowed him to relate humorous incidents both with computers and life in general.
Following service in the U.S. Navy in 1950-1951 and graduation from South Dakota State University in 1955, Pence began his journalism career with brief stints at weekly newspapers in Britton, South Dakota and Tracy, Minnesota. He then completed course work for a master's degree in journalism from Iowa State University followed by a move to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was a publications editor at North Carolina State University.
He began his career in the rural electrification program in 1961 as editor of The Carolina Farmer (now Carolina Country) a monthly magazine published by the statewide association of North Carolina rural electric cooperatives. In 1967 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become editor of the Rural Electric Newsletter for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA).
Pence received many awards for his journalistic and genealogical efforts and has authored several works, including Two Longs and a Short, a personal remembrance of growing up in a small South Dakota town. Proceeds from the sale of this book have gone to support college scholarships for Frederick, South Dakota High School graduates.
During his career with NRECA, Pence also served as editor of Rural Electrification Magazine and as head of the association's publications department. He spent the latter part of his career at NRECA as a communications consultant specializing in assisting local electric cooperatives with pressing public and member relations problems, including threats of sell-outs. In addition to on-site assistance, he developed and conducted training sessions to guide local cooperatives in building sound public and member relations policies and programs. For the past several years he wrote a monthly column featuring historical flashbacks for RE Magazine.
Pence was active in numerous professional, cooperative and rural organizations and was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the National Food and Energy Council (Columbia, Missouri). He won the 1961 George W. Haggard Memorial Journalism Award, conferred by NRECA yearly to the editor of the statewide publication (Carolina Farmer) for presenting the most lucid, forthright and effective presentation of issues advancing the objectives of electric cooperatives.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Ellyn (Hutto) Pence, a native of Jackson, Mississippi, their three children, Todd of Fairfax, Virginia; Robert of Raleigh, North Carolina and Laura Pence Larson, son-in-law Matthew Larson of Allenspark, Colorado, and two grandchildren, Molly Bellou Larson and Calvin Pence Larson.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Monroe Pence and Clarice Ethelyn (Stanley) Pence of Frederick, a brother, Donald and a sister, Margie Ann (Pence) Buntrock (Mrs. Ralph Buntrock).
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1884-1971 Pence Family History
Richard Pence died on Wendesday, November 25th, 2009 following a lengthy illness. His research is now located at the Allen County Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
This web page will remain active as a source for continuing research.
This site is dedicated to the collection and dissemination of information about the Pence Families of America
❤️
Leaves of Gas
Pulaski County Historical Society – New Web Site Pulaski County Historical Society – New Web Site
It saddens me to report the passing of Dick Pence. He died of a heart attack on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 and passed away three days later, Wednesday the 25th.
Dick was very helpful to me, and to the Stray Leaves community, in sorting through the Pence families who are related to the James, more socially than as kin (actually my DNA test results show we are related to Jesse James - Bobbi).
Dick's biography appears on his Pence family web site
Richard Allen (Dick) Pence is known as one of the pioneers of computer genealogy. He was among the first to see the value of personal computers for genealogical record keeping and began organizing his records with one of the earliest of these machines in 1978.
He has written about using computers for genealogy for a wide variety of publications and spoken on this and other genealogical topic before national, state and local genealogical groups.
In 1982 he helped organize the National Genealogical Society's Computer Interest Group (NGS/CIG) and he was for several years editor of the group's newsletter. He was instrumental in helping the CIG start an electronic bulletin board and is a former sysop of the NGS/CIG BBS. He was moderator of two genealogy-related electronic message exchanges on the FidoNet amateur BBS network, which at its height of their popularity – before the advent of widespread Internet access – involved well over a thousand BBSs worldwide. In the early 1990s the message flow in one of these, the Genealogy Conference, often reached 700 a day.
The National Genealogical Society presented him its Award of Merit for his work in computer and on-line genealogy at its Conference in the States in Richmond, Va., in May of 1999. He previously had been a recipient of the Society's Distinguished Service Award (1986). In 2001, he was among the first group of "pioneers" honored by induction into the Genealogy Technology Hall of Fame by GenTech, an organization dedicated to effective use of technology in genealogical research and record keeping.
He has written for the National Genealogical Society Quarterly and the society's Newsletter. He was co-author, with Paul Andereck, of Computer Genealogy, published by Ancestry, Inc., Salt Lake City, in 1985, and was the editor in 1991 of the revised edition of this widely used guide. He also has been a contributor to Ancestry's Genealogical Computing as well as the NGS/CIG newsletter.
After moving to the Washington, DC, area in 1967, Pence began actively pursuing his life-long interest in genealogy, with his primary interest being in the Pence family name. While amassing a database of some 12,000 pre-1920 U.S. Pences, he has published two volumes of A Guide to the Pence Families of America. He currently is working on a definitive compilation of his own branch of the Pence family.
In 1977 and 1980, his six-part series for beginners in genealogy, "Searching Your Family Tree," was syndicated to some 150 newspapers and magazines in the U.S.
Pence is a native of South Dakota and a journalism graduate of South Dakota State University, Brookings, and was a weekly newspaperman in South Dakota and Minnesota. He studied technical journalism in the graduate school at Iowa State University, Ames, for three years and was a technical publications editor there and at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, before entering the association publications field in 1961, where he has served as editor of a number of publications. He is retired as communications counsel for the Arlington, Va.-based National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, where he was a nationally recognized authority in member and public relations projects and political action programs relating to membership organizations. He has been both a consultant and instructor on these topics throughout the nation.
In 1984, he edited The Next Greatest Thing, an extensive photo history of the first 50 years of rural electrification in the United States. More than 57,000 copies of this 256-page hard-cover book are now in print and it received a "Gold Circle" award in 1985 as the outstanding one-time association publication from the American Society of Association Executives.
He has been a frequent after-dinner speaker at meetings of rural people, where he is noted for his stories about small-town and country America. His latest book is a collection of these and other stories, Two Longs and a Short and Other Tales of the Old West, some of which have previously appeared in publications such as Country and Reminisce.
Pence and his wife, the former Lillian Llewellyn (Ellyn) Hutto, a native of Jackson, MS, and a retired general music teacher, live in the city of Fairfax, Va. Their children: Todd Monroe, a teacher in the Fairfax County schools, is a journalism and education graduate of West Virginia University and also has been a graduate student in English literature there; Robert Chandler is a cinema production graduate of Ithaca College (NY) and is currently working at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC; and Laura Llewellyn received her degree in political science at North Carolina State and lives in Lyons, Colorado, with her husband, Matthew Calvin (Matt) Larson, and their daughter Molly Bellou Larson (born in 2004). Laura works at Planet Bluegrass, an organization which promotes bluegrass and folk music festivals, including the noted one at Telluride each summer.
A memorial service held January, 2010
❤️
Stewart Bell Jr. Archives Room
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society
P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041, fax (540) 722-4769
[email protected] (e-mail)
www.handleyregional.org
Richard Allen Pence Collection
567 THL
Scope and Content: This collection is made up of three booklets on the Pence family written by Richard Allen Pence. The three booklets are entitled: "A Guide to the Pence Families of America," Parts I and II (August and Shenandoah Cos., VA) and "A Guide to the Pence Families of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia," Part III (Shenandoah Co., VA). (1 box) Last updated 02/2011.
Biographical/Historical: Family history of the Pence families of the Shenandoah Valley, the Pence descendants of Conrad Pence, George Philip Pence, Nicolas Pence, and guides to the Pence families of America.
Bibliography: Notes from the collection.
Cite As: Richard Allen Pence Collection, 567 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.
Box 1
A Guide to the Pence Families of America, Part I: Jacob and Valentine Pence of Augusta (Rockingham) County, Virginia, including descendants in Ohio and West, by Richard Allen Pence, 1982, 1 volume, 129 pages, printed
A Guide to the Pence Families of America, Part II: Jacob, Lewis, and Henry Pence of Shenandoah (Page) County, Virginia and Champaign County, Ohio, by Richard Allen Pence, 1982, 1 volume, 159 pages, printed
A Guide to the Pence Families of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: The Pence descendants of Conrad Pence, George Philip Pence, Nicholas Pence, of Shenandoah County, Virginia, by Richard Allen Pence, December 1990, excerpt, 96 pages, printed
BIO: Photo provided by: Roberta Frances Bobbi Jenkins
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♫ ♫ God Bless America Land of the Free ♫ ♫
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Richard was my dear cousin, mentor and friend: Roberta Frances Bobbi Jenkins
Richard Allen Pence On November 25, 2009, of Fairfax City, VA.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Lillian Ellyn Pence; sons, Todd M. of Fairfax City and Robert C. Pence of Raleigh, NC; daughter and son-in-law, Laura L. and Matthew Larson; and two grandchildren, Molly and Calvin Larson of Allenspark, CO.
A celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, January 9, 2010, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the NRECA Conference Center, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22203.
Interment:
Wayside Cemetery
Frederick
Brown County
South Dakota, USA
Memorial Contributions may be sent to the Frederick HS Alumni Association, Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 544, Frederick, SD 57441.
Published in The Washington Post on Jan. 3, 2010
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UpFront with NGS 04 December 2009
This is the blog for the National Genealogical Society. It publishes both society news and articles of general interest to its membership.
Richard Pence, 1932-2009
Richard Pence was a long-time member of NGS who contributed his many talents to the organization, especially in the early days of computer genealogy. We are saddened to learn of his recent death. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 9, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Conference Center located at 4301 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22203. The following obituary was contributed by his family.
Richard A. Pence, an editor and publications advisor whose hobby of tracking his ancestors evolved into pioneering work in the use of computers in genealogical research, died November 25 in Fairfax,Virginia. He was 77.
Pence's work in genealogy, once a side-line, became a full-time effort in 2000 when he retired from his 39-year career in communications work for rural electric cooperatives on the state and national levels.
Pence's principal genealogical contributions stemmed from his interest in the Pence surname. He amassed several large databases of information on those with this surname, some of which are available to researchers through a web site he created and maintained Pence Family History
In addition to two books of Pence family history, he was co-author in 1985 of Computer Genealogy, the first book covering this topic. In that year, he was also editor of The Next Greatest Thing, an award-winning photo history of the first 50 years of rural electrification in the United States.
In 1982, he was among the founders of a computer interest group within the National Genealogical Society, and he received the Distinguished Service Award and an Award of Merit from the society for his pioneering work in computer genealogy. In 2002, he was among the initial inductees into the Genealogy Technology Pioneer Hall of Fame by GenTech, an organization of genealogists interested in computer applications.
Pence authored numerous how-to articles on genealogy and computers, many of which can be found on the internet, and he was a featured speaker on this topic at several national genealogy conferences. He was especially fond of speaking engagements that allowed him to relate humorous incidents both with computers and life in general.
Following service in the U.S. Navy in 1950-1951 and graduation from South Dakota State University in 1955, Pence began his journalism career with brief stints at weekly newspapers in Britton, South Dakota and Tracy, Minnesota. He then completed course work for a master's degree in journalism from Iowa State University followed by a move to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was a publications editor at North Carolina State University.
He began his career in the rural electrification program in 1961 as editor of The Carolina Farmer (now Carolina Country) a monthly magazine published by the statewide association of North Carolina rural electric cooperatives. In 1967 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become editor of the Rural Electric Newsletter for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA).
Pence received many awards for his journalistic and genealogical efforts and has authored several works, including Two Longs and a Short, a personal remembrance of growing up in a small South Dakota town. Proceeds from the sale of this book have gone to support college scholarships for Frederick, South Dakota High School graduates.
During his career with NRECA, Pence also served as editor of Rural Electrification Magazine and as head of the association's publications department. He spent the latter part of his career at NRECA as a communications consultant specializing in assisting local electric cooperatives with pressing public and member relations problems, including threats of sell-outs. In addition to on-site assistance, he developed and conducted training sessions to guide local cooperatives in building sound public and member relations policies and programs. For the past several years he wrote a monthly column featuring historical flashbacks for RE Magazine.
Pence was active in numerous professional, cooperative and rural organizations and was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the National Food and Energy Council (Columbia, Missouri). He won the 1961 George W. Haggard Memorial Journalism Award, conferred by NRECA yearly to the editor of the statewide publication (Carolina Farmer) for presenting the most lucid, forthright and effective presentation of issues advancing the objectives of electric cooperatives.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Ellyn (Hutto) Pence, a native of Jackson, Mississippi, their three children, Todd of Fairfax, Virginia; Robert of Raleigh, North Carolina and Laura Pence Larson, son-in-law Matthew Larson of Allenspark, Colorado, and two grandchildren, Molly Bellou Larson and Calvin Pence Larson.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Monroe Pence and Clarice Ethelyn (Stanley) Pence of Frederick, a brother, Donald and a sister, Margie Ann (Pence) Buntrock (Mrs. Ralph Buntrock).
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1884-1971 Pence Family History
Richard Pence died on Wendesday, November 25th, 2009 following a lengthy illness. His research is now located at the Allen County Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
This web page will remain active as a source for continuing research.
This site is dedicated to the collection and dissemination of information about the Pence Families of America
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It saddens me to report the passing of Dick Pence. He died of a heart attack on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 and passed away three days later, Wednesday the 25th.
Dick was very helpful to me, and to the Stray Leaves community, in sorting through the Pence families who are related to the James, more socially than as kin (actually my DNA test results show we are related to Jesse James - Bobbi).
Dick's biography appears on his Pence family web site
Richard Allen (Dick) Pence is known as one of the pioneers of computer genealogy. He was among the first to see the value of personal computers for genealogical record keeping and began organizing his records with one of the earliest of these machines in 1978.
He has written about using computers for genealogy for a wide variety of publications and spoken on this and other genealogical topic before national, state and local genealogical groups.
In 1982 he helped organize the National Genealogical Society's Computer Interest Group (NGS/CIG) and he was for several years editor of the group's newsletter. He was instrumental in helping the CIG start an electronic bulletin board and is a former sysop of the NGS/CIG BBS. He was moderator of two genealogy-related electronic message exchanges on the FidoNet amateur BBS network, which at its height of their popularity – before the advent of widespread Internet access – involved well over a thousand BBSs worldwide. In the early 1990s the message flow in one of these, the Genealogy Conference, often reached 700 a day.
The National Genealogical Society presented him its Award of Merit for his work in computer and on-line genealogy at its Conference in the States in Richmond, Va., in May of 1999. He previously had been a recipient of the Society's Distinguished Service Award (1986). In 2001, he was among the first group of "pioneers" honored by induction into the Genealogy Technology Hall of Fame by GenTech, an organization dedicated to effective use of technology in genealogical research and record keeping.
He has written for the National Genealogical Society Quarterly and the society's Newsletter. He was co-author, with Paul Andereck, of Computer Genealogy, published by Ancestry, Inc., Salt Lake City, in 1985, and was the editor in 1991 of the revised edition of this widely used guide. He also has been a contributor to Ancestry's Genealogical Computing as well as the NGS/CIG newsletter.
After moving to the Washington, DC, area in 1967, Pence began actively pursuing his life-long interest in genealogy, with his primary interest being in the Pence family name. While amassing a database of some 12,000 pre-1920 U.S. Pences, he has published two volumes of A Guide to the Pence Families of America. He currently is working on a definitive compilation of his own branch of the Pence family.
In 1977 and 1980, his six-part series for beginners in genealogy, "Searching Your Family Tree," was syndicated to some 150 newspapers and magazines in the U.S.
Pence is a native of South Dakota and a journalism graduate of South Dakota State University, Brookings, and was a weekly newspaperman in South Dakota and Minnesota. He studied technical journalism in the graduate school at Iowa State University, Ames, for three years and was a technical publications editor there and at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, before entering the association publications field in 1961, where he has served as editor of a number of publications. He is retired as communications counsel for the Arlington, Va.-based National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, where he was a nationally recognized authority in member and public relations projects and political action programs relating to membership organizations. He has been both a consultant and instructor on these topics throughout the nation.
In 1984, he edited The Next Greatest Thing, an extensive photo history of the first 50 years of rural electrification in the United States. More than 57,000 copies of this 256-page hard-cover book are now in print and it received a "Gold Circle" award in 1985 as the outstanding one-time association publication from the American Society of Association Executives.
He has been a frequent after-dinner speaker at meetings of rural people, where he is noted for his stories about small-town and country America. His latest book is a collection of these and other stories, Two Longs and a Short and Other Tales of the Old West, some of which have previously appeared in publications such as Country and Reminisce.
Pence and his wife, the former Lillian Llewellyn (Ellyn) Hutto, a native of Jackson, MS, and a retired general music teacher, live in the city of Fairfax, Va. Their children: Todd Monroe, a teacher in the Fairfax County schools, is a journalism and education graduate of West Virginia University and also has been a graduate student in English literature there; Robert Chandler is a cinema production graduate of Ithaca College (NY) and is currently working at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC; and Laura Llewellyn received her degree in political science at North Carolina State and lives in Lyons, Colorado, with her husband, Matthew Calvin (Matt) Larson, and their daughter Molly Bellou Larson (born in 2004). Laura works at Planet Bluegrass, an organization which promotes bluegrass and folk music festivals, including the noted one at Telluride each summer.
A memorial service held January, 2010
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Stewart Bell Jr. Archives Room
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society
P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041, fax (540) 722-4769
[email protected] (e-mail)
www.handleyregional.org
Richard Allen Pence Collection
567 THL
Scope and Content: This collection is made up of three booklets on the Pence family written by Richard Allen Pence. The three booklets are entitled: "A Guide to the Pence Families of America," Parts I and II (August and Shenandoah Cos., VA) and "A Guide to the Pence Families of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia," Part III (Shenandoah Co., VA). (1 box) Last updated 02/2011.
Biographical/Historical: Family history of the Pence families of the Shenandoah Valley, the Pence descendants of Conrad Pence, George Philip Pence, Nicolas Pence, and guides to the Pence families of America.
Bibliography: Notes from the collection.
Cite As: Richard Allen Pence Collection, 567 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.
Box 1
A Guide to the Pence Families of America, Part I: Jacob and Valentine Pence of Augusta (Rockingham) County, Virginia, including descendants in Ohio and West, by Richard Allen Pence, 1982, 1 volume, 129 pages, printed
A Guide to the Pence Families of America, Part II: Jacob, Lewis, and Henry Pence of Shenandoah (Page) County, Virginia and Champaign County, Ohio, by Richard Allen Pence, 1982, 1 volume, 159 pages, printed
A Guide to the Pence Families of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: The Pence descendants of Conrad Pence, George Philip Pence, Nicholas Pence, of Shenandoah County, Virginia, by Richard Allen Pence, December 1990, excerpt, 96 pages, printed
BIO: Photo provided by: Roberta Frances Bobbi Jenkins
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Richard Allen Pence On November 25, 2009, of Fairfax City, VA.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Lillian Ellyn Pence; sons, Todd M. of Fairfax City and Robert C. Pence of Raleigh, NC; daughter and son-in-law, Laura L. and Matthew Larson; and two grandchildren, Molly and Calvin Larson of Allenspark, CO.
A celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, January 9, 2010, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the NRECA Conference Center, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22203.
Interment:
Wayside Cemetery
Frederick
Brown County
South Dakota, USA
Memorial Contributions may be sent to the Frederick HS Alumni Association, Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 544, Frederick, SD 57441.
Published in The Washington Post on Jan. 3, 2010
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UpFront with NGS 04 December 2009
This is the blog for the National Genealogical Society. It publishes both society news and articles of general interest to its membership.
Richard Pence, 1932-2009
Richard Pence was a long-time member of NGS who contributed his many talents to the organization, especially in the early days of computer genealogy. We are saddened to learn of his recent death. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 9, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Conference Center located at 4301 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22203. The following obituary was contributed by his family.
Richard A. Pence, an editor and publications advisor whose hobby of tracking his ancestors evolved into pioneering work in the use of computers in genealogical research, died November 25 in Fairfax,Virginia. He was 77.
Pence's work in genealogy, once a side-line, became a full-time effort in 2000 when he retired from his 39-year career in communications work for rural electric cooperatives on the state and national levels.
Pence's principal genealogical contributions stemmed from his interest in the Pence surname. He amassed several large databases of information on those with this surname, some of which are available to researchers through a web site he created and maintained Pence Family History
In addition to two books of Pence family history, he was co-author in 1985 of Computer Genealogy, the first book covering this topic. In that year, he was also editor of The Next Greatest Thing, an award-winning photo history of the first 50 years of rural electrification in the United States.
In 1982, he was among the founders of a computer interest group within the National Genealogical Society, and he received the Distinguished Service Award and an Award of Merit from the society for his pioneering work in computer genealogy. In 2002, he was among the initial inductees into the Genealogy Technology Pioneer Hall of Fame by GenTech, an organization of genealogists interested in computer applications.
Pence authored numerous how-to articles on genealogy and computers, many of which can be found on the internet, and he was a featured speaker on this topic at several national genealogy conferences. He was especially fond of speaking engagements that allowed him to relate humorous incidents both with computers and life in general.
Following service in the U.S. Navy in 1950-1951 and graduation from South Dakota State University in 1955, Pence began his journalism career with brief stints at weekly newspapers in Britton, South Dakota and Tracy, Minnesota. He then completed course work for a master's degree in journalism from Iowa State University followed by a move to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was a publications editor at North Carolina State University.
He began his career in the rural electrification program in 1961 as editor of The Carolina Farmer (now Carolina Country) a monthly magazine published by the statewide association of North Carolina rural electric cooperatives. In 1967 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become editor of the Rural Electric Newsletter for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA).
Pence received many awards for his journalistic and genealogical efforts and has authored several works, including Two Longs and a Short, a personal remembrance of growing up in a small South Dakota town. Proceeds from the sale of this book have gone to support college scholarships for Frederick, South Dakota High School graduates.
During his career with NRECA, Pence also served as editor of Rural Electrification Magazine and as head of the association's publications department. He spent the latter part of his career at NRECA as a communications consultant specializing in assisting local electric cooperatives with pressing public and member relations problems, including threats of sell-outs. In addition to on-site assistance, he developed and conducted training sessions to guide local cooperatives in building sound public and member relations policies and programs. For the past several years he wrote a monthly column featuring historical flashbacks for RE Magazine.
Pence was active in numerous professional, cooperative and rural organizations and was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the National Food and Energy Council (Columbia, Missouri). He won the 1961 George W. Haggard Memorial Journalism Award, conferred by NRECA yearly to the editor of the statewide publication (Carolina Farmer) for presenting the most lucid, forthright and effective presentation of issues advancing the objectives of electric cooperatives.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Ellyn (Hutto) Pence, a native of Jackson, Mississippi, their three children, Todd of Fairfax, Virginia; Robert of Raleigh, North Carolina and Laura Pence Larson, son-in-law Matthew Larson of Allenspark, Colorado, and two grandchildren, Molly Bellou Larson and Calvin Pence Larson.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Monroe Pence and Clarice Ethelyn (Stanley) Pence of Frederick, a brother, Donald and a sister, Margie Ann (Pence) Buntrock (Mrs. Ralph Buntrock).
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1884-1971 Pence Family History
Richard Pence died on Wendesday, November 25th, 2009 following a lengthy illness. His research is now located at the Allen County Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
This web page will remain active as a source for continuing research.
This site is dedicated to the collection and dissemination of information about the Pence Families of America
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Pulaski County Historical Society – New Web Site Pulaski County Historical Society – New Web Site
It saddens me to report the passing of Dick Pence. He died of a heart attack on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 and passed away three days later, Wednesday the 25th.
Dick was very helpful to me, and to the Stray Leaves community, in sorting through the Pence families who are related to the James, more socially than as kin (actually my DNA test results show we are related to Jesse James - Bobbi).
Dick's biography appears on his Pence family web site
Richard Allen (Dick) Pence is known as one of the pioneers of computer genealogy. He was among the first to see the value of personal computers for genealogical record keeping and began organizing his records with one of the earliest of these machines in 1978.
He has written about using computers for genealogy for a wide variety of publications and spoken on this and other genealogical topic before national, state and local genealogical groups.
In 1982 he helped organize the National Genealogical Society's Computer Interest Group (NGS/CIG) and he was for several years editor of the group's newsletter. He was instrumental in helping the CIG start an electronic bulletin board and is a former sysop of the NGS/CIG BBS. He was moderator of two genealogy-related electronic message exchanges on the FidoNet amateur BBS network, which at its height of their popularity – before the advent of widespread Internet access – involved well over a thousand BBSs worldwide. In the early 1990s the message flow in one of these, the Genealogy Conference, often reached 700 a day.
The National Genealogical Society presented him its Award of Merit for his work in computer and on-line genealogy at its Conference in the States in Richmond, Va., in May of 1999. He previously had been a recipient of the Society's Distinguished Service Award (1986). In 2001, he was among the first group of "pioneers" honored by induction into the Genealogy Technology Hall of Fame by GenTech, an organization dedicated to effective use of technology in genealogical research and record keeping.
He has written for the National Genealogical Society Quarterly and the society's Newsletter. He was co-author, with Paul Andereck, of Computer Genealogy, published by Ancestry, Inc., Salt Lake City, in 1985, and was the editor in 1991 of the revised edition of this widely used guide. He also has been a contributor to Ancestry's Genealogical Computing as well as the NGS/CIG newsletter.
After moving to the Washington, DC, area in 1967, Pence began actively pursuing his life-long interest in genealogy, with his primary interest being in the Pence family name. While amassing a database of some 12,000 pre-1920 U.S. Pences, he has published two volumes of A Guide to the Pence Families of America. He currently is working on a definitive compilation of his own branch of the Pence family.
In 1977 and 1980, his six-part series for beginners in genealogy, "Searching Your Family Tree," was syndicated to some 150 newspapers and magazines in the U.S.
Pence is a native of South Dakota and a journalism graduate of South Dakota State University, Brookings, and was a weekly newspaperman in South Dakota and Minnesota. He studied technical journalism in the graduate school at Iowa State University, Ames, for three years and was a technical publications editor there and at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, before entering the association publications field in 1961, where he has served as editor of a number of publications. He is retired as communications counsel for the Arlington, Va.-based National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, where he was a nationally recognized authority in member and public relations projects and political action programs relating to membership organizations. He has been both a consultant and instructor on these topics throughout the nation.
In 1984, he edited The Next Greatest Thing, an extensive photo history of the first 50 years of rural electrification in the United States. More than 57,000 copies of this 256-page hard-cover book are now in print and it received a "Gold Circle" award in 1985 as the outstanding one-time association publication from the American Society of Association Executives.
He has been a frequent after-dinner speaker at meetings of rural people, where he is noted for his stories about small-town and country America. His latest book is a collection of these and other stories, Two Longs and a Short and Other Tales of the Old West, some of which have previously appeared in publications such as Country and Reminisce.
Pence and his wife, the former Lillian Llewellyn (Ellyn) Hutto, a native of Jackson, MS, and a retired general music teacher, live in the city of Fairfax, Va. Their children: Todd Monroe, a teacher in the Fairfax County schools, is a journalism and education graduate of West Virginia University and also has been a graduate student in English literature there; Robert Chandler is a cinema production graduate of Ithaca College (NY) and is currently working at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC; and Laura Llewellyn received her degree in political science at North Carolina State and lives in Lyons, Colorado, with her husband, Matthew Calvin (Matt) Larson, and their daughter Molly Bellou Larson (born in 2004). Laura works at Planet Bluegrass, an organization which promotes bluegrass and folk music festivals, including the noted one at Telluride each summer.
A memorial service held January, 2010
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Stewart Bell Jr. Archives Room
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society
P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041, fax (540) 722-4769
[email protected] (e-mail)
www.handleyregional.org
Richard Allen Pence Collection
567 THL
Scope and Content: This collection is made up of three booklets on the Pence family written by Richard Allen Pence. The three booklets are entitled: "A Guide to the Pence Families of America," Parts I and II (August and Shenandoah Cos., VA) and "A Guide to the Pence Families of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia," Part III (Shenandoah Co., VA). (1 box) Last updated 02/2011.
Biographical/Historical: Family history of the Pence families of the Shenandoah Valley, the Pence descendants of Conrad Pence, George Philip Pence, Nicolas Pence, and guides to the Pence families of America.
Bibliography: Notes from the collection.
Cite As: Richard Allen Pence Collection, 567 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.
Box 1
A Guide to the Pence Families of America, Part I: Jacob and Valentine Pence of Augusta (Rockingham) County, Virginia, including descendants in Ohio and West, by Richard Allen Pence, 1982, 1 volume, 129 pages, printed
A Guide to the Pence Families of America, Part II: Jacob, Lewis, and Henry Pence of Shenandoah (Page) County, Virginia and Champaign County, Ohio, by Richard Allen Pence, 1982, 1 volume, 159 pages, printed
A Guide to the Pence Families of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: The Pence descendants of Conrad Pence, George Philip Pence, Nicholas Pence, of Shenandoah County, Virginia, by Richard Allen Pence, December 1990, excerpt, 96 pages, printed
BIO: Photo provided by: Roberta Frances Bobbi Jenkins
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